From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: rename file in dired based on current [T2C round 3]
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:23:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41ad4ade-9696-4e48-93e5-d4fd21ba68ab@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kmf3t1e.fsf@zoho.eu>
> How do you rename a file in dired, and get the previous/current as
> a suggestion?
>
> Let's say it is called salma-hayek.png and you want to rename it
> salma-hayek-bandidas-2006.png, it is useful to get the first part
> spelled out, right?
>
> (defun dired-do-rename-suggest ()
> (interactive)
> (let*((file (dired-get-filename))
> (old-name (dired-get-filename 'no-dir))
> (new-name (read-from-minibuffer "rename to: " old-name)) )
> (dired-rename-file file new-name nil) ; (NOT) OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS
> (revert-buffer) ))
In Dired?
`R M-n'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-28 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-28 3:53 rename file in dired based on current [T2C round 3] Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 4:23 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-10-28 4:46 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 4:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-28 4:53 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-28 5:34 ` Yuri Khan
2020-10-28 5:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-10-29 9:22 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-30 16:12 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-10-30 16:29 ` Michael Albinus
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