From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired rename backup file too Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:40:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <85c51713-6afe-418f-840d-359336c0f3fb@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <252d8155-845e-4eb2-8cef-56b5ba97926f@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4d887f1a$0$23751$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300801272 7400 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2011 13:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:41:12 +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 14:41:08 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 1Q21pb-0002WF-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:41:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60734 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q21pb-0004xw-D8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:41:07 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1300797656 28806 127.0.0.1 (22 Mar 2011 12:40:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:40:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.151 Safari/534.16, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186180 comp.emacs:101318 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:80317 Archived-At: On Mar 22, 3:50=C2=A0am, Uday Reddy wrote: > On 3/21/2011 2:51 PM, Xah Lee wrote: > > > not a solution to your question, but these days hardly call R anymore, > > but use wdired-change-to-wdired-mode. It has a shortcut since emacs > > 23.1 (Ctrl+x Ctrl+q). (for me, i just aliased it to rn ). > > Kinda funny how it took so long for Emacs to discover that directories > are editable beasts. =C2=A0Meanwhile, other Operating Systems like Win32 = have > been editing file names for ages. =C2=A0GNU is *not Unix*. =C2=A0We forge= t that to > our own detriment. haha. Are you being sarcastic? =E2=98=BA 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. Xah