From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does dired have `mv' command? Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:53:35 -0400 Message-ID: <44c7b9ef$1@news.greennet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153856438 11318 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 19:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 21:40:33 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 1G5Slc-0004kH-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Slb-0003VL-MW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:40:31 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 26 Jul 2006 14:52:31 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 19 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140597 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:36222 Archived-At: 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.