From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does dired have `mv' command? Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:04:51 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <44c7b9ef$1@news.greennet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153860044 23413 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 20:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 22:40:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Thb-0000fu-F9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Tha-0003E1-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:40:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1153857918 16174 166.84.1.5 (25 Jul 2006 20:05:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:05:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jqkuiYc2CFSbKXya+YeixGqkp3U= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140598 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36223 Archived-At: I move files all of the time using the rename function of dired. Just specify a different directory, and the file is moved. See the documentation for dired-do-rename, mapped typically to R within a dired buffer. - Chris Ken Goldman writes: > To all the other answers, I'll recommend wdired.el. > > I don't know if it can move between directories, but it's great for > renaming files in a directory, as it allows editing the dired buffer > using all the power of emacs. > > That is, one can use keyboard macros, search and replace, rectangle > mode (great for adding prefixes to file names), flip mode bits with > the mouse, etc. > > Leon wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I'm wondering if dired has a function similar to `mv' in GNU/Linux >> command line. If not, what's the best way of moving files between >> directories? >> >> Currently I'm using copy and delete for small files. I have to resort >> to shell to move large files. -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================