From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to modify 'write-file'
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:43:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878w8twqyd.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c5fff69b-62d4-437d-ac23-15e6dbbd0644@r18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com
"richard.christensen" <richard.christensen@avagotech.com> writes:
> Thanks. A friend of mine suggested using Dired as well. Your
> approach is more complete. I really should get more familiar with it
> and use it more.
>
> richard
>
>>
>> I would use dired for this. First create a dired buffer with the files,
>> or a superset it, with `dired', `find-dired' or some other incarnation.
>>
>> Then
>> M-x wdired-change-to-dired-mode RET
^
I missed a `w' in there, the command is called
`wdired-change-to-wdired-mode'.
>> and it let's you edit the file-names, after which you press `C-c C-c'
>> and commit the changes to the filesystem.
>>
-ap
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-11 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-10 17:17 How to modify 'write-file' richard.christensen
2010-04-10 18:00 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-04-11 18:16 ` richard.christensen
2010-04-11 23:29 ` richard.christensen
2010-04-11 23:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-04-13 14:43 ` richard.christensen
2010-04-14 0:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-04-14 23:35 ` richard.christensen
2010-05-07 0:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-05-07 5:30 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-04-10 18:19 ` Andreas Politz
2010-04-11 18:17 ` richard.christensen
2010-04-11 22:43 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
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