From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6823: 24.0.50; Wdired or Dired enhancement Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:16:01 -0700 Message-ID: <2F0E9BE0383248998DD1960E32677585@us.oracle.com> References: <87pqxs5o7s.fsf@tux.homenetwork> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281364720 2291 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 14:38:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:38:40 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Thierry Volpiatto'" , Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 16:38:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiTUo-0002Oo-T6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:38:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiTUo-0003KA-Dg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:62635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiT9B-0006bx-UC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o79EG7E1029063 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:16:09 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o795ADjm017202; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:16:06 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt018.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 479151421281363365; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:16:05 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.243.183) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:16:05 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Acs3iVEMzcHBTgLgTRSymA3rNJ9d2gAQvb9A In-Reply-To: <87pqxs5o7s.fsf@tux.homenetwork> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:16:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39355 Archived-At: > > AFAIK the best you can do now is to use Wdired and perform > > query-replace with some fancy replacement expression. > > We should offer something simpler for the common task of > > renaming a sequence of files. > > We have have two tools to achieve this, wdired-change-to-wdired-mode, > and query-replace-regexp used with \, and \# in the > replacement regexp. That's exactly what I meant by "use Wdired and perform query-replace with some fancy replacement expression." I know that a user can do it. What I suggest is that we also "offer something simpler for the common task of renaming a sequence of files." A Windows user need not be familiar with Lisp sexps (and especially arcane incantations using `\,' and \#). It's great to have that capability, but we should also offer something simpler for the common, simple case. > You can use also this function:(You may have to run it two > times in some rare cases) > > (defun serial-rename (dir ext name start)... I haven't tried it, but from the doc string, it sounds like the kind of thing I had in mind. The doc for Dired should mention such a command (which should be bound to a key), and it should mention that you can do fancier, more flexible replacement using query-replace with `\,', `\#', etc.