From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired rename backup file too Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:43:48 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4d88edf9$0$23762$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <252d8155-845e-4eb2-8cef-56b5ba97926f@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4d887f1a$0$23751$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <85c51713-6afe-418f-840d-359336c0f3fb@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300822860 17211 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2011 19:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:41:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 22 20:40:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1Q27Rk-0006hF-Pr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q27Rh-0003f2-5v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:40:49 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: <85c51713-6afe-418f-840d-359336c0f3fb@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.232.137.113 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=H=hW2NCF[:W; BVUdS?DZIH?UQ6E]45i7E1PQiLQiXd?DWbWG[N=S 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:80321 Archived-At: On 3/22/2011 12:40 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > haha. Are you being sarcastic? ☺ No, I was being serious. I was trying to point out how buying into the Unix way of doing things can block us from doing the right things. > Dired can edit file names one at a time, just like OS. Wdired lets > you edit names of multiple files at the same time as if it's a text > file. This feature isn't in Windows, Mac, Linux. Dired allowed you to *rename* files, which is not the same as editing file names. Sometimes, I work with some long file names for which renaming - the Unix way - isn't the right solution. People that have used DOS, or its predecessors like CP/M, TOPS-20, TOPS-10 etc., know of better ways of doing it. Yes, Wdired is a great advance. I agree fully! That is what GNU and Emacs are all about: making advances in user interfaces and building the right tools for the right problems. Cheers, Uday