From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: does dired have `mv' command? Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:20:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87u058pidx.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153732681 30514 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2006 09:18:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 11:17:59 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 1G4wZP-0002TL-L3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:17:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4wZO-00065M-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G4wZ4-00061Z-Tk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G4wZ1-00060d-Qs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4wZ1-00060T-Hz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.183] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G4wa4-00029S-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 05:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.11.151] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu4) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML21M-1G4wYy1UtK-0007tD; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AE40A7546A; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:20:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Leon In-Reply-To: (Leon's message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:11:19 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 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:36194 Archived-At: Leon writes: > 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? R or even better ;-) C-h m C-x o C-s rename for the other renaming possibilities. the following might be helpful when you also want to copy, delete whole directories: (setq dired-recursive-copies 'always) (setq dired-recursive-deletes 'top) ;ask for the top directories -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany