From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired rename backup file too
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:08:00 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <immnog$mmd$4@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 252d8155-845e-4eb2-8cef-56b5ba97926f@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com
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In article <252d8155-845e-4eb2-8cef-56b5ba97926f@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Mar 20, 5:20 pm, Kevin Ryde <use...@zip.com.au> wrote:
>> When renaming a file with dired "R" (dired-do-rename), I'd like it to
>> rename the backup file too. So foo -> bar and foo~ -> bar~. Is there a
>> secret option or other command to do that?
>>
>> I only use the single foo~ backup style, not the numbered backups, if
>> that makes it easier.
>
>not a solution to your question, but these days hardly call R anymore,
>but use wdired-change-to-wdired-mode. It has a shortcut since emacs
>23.1 (Ctrl+x Ctrl+q). (for me, i just aliased it to “rn”).
>
One problem with (the really cool) wdired is that after you
do your renaming, deleting, etc, you can't do "g" and still
be in a dired (wdired) of that same set of files -- it
has to kill off the wdired and go back to a regular
dired.
David
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2011-03-21 14:51 ` dired rename backup file too Xah Lee
2011-03-22 10:50 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-22 12:40 ` Xah Lee
2011-03-22 18:43 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-27 7:14 ` David Combs
2011-03-27 7:09 ` David Combs
2011-03-27 7:08 ` David Combs [this message]
2011-03-21 8:01 martin rudalics
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2011-03-21 0:20 Kevin Ryde
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