Re: Partial wdired (edit just filename at the point)

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Hello, just taking this thread on the fly.
>

Hi Thierry! Thanks for the Helm, I can't really imagine my Emacs without
Helm!

> Normally one can pass a list of files with absolute path to dired to get
> a dired buffer with only the needed file names to possibly edit with
> wdired, however this is broken in Emacs since ages; Helm is fixing this
> by advice, see

I didn't know about this feature of Dired to be honest.

> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/helm-lib.el#L186.
> This allow selecting files from helm-find-files and switching to a dired
> buffer with only those files.

I do use Helm when I wish to delete some files or move them around
etc; I am not always dropping into Dired. But sometimes it is more
convenient to do more "direct editing" and file management operations as
in a conventional file manager. In those cases I find dired + wdired
very nice. I can't remember when I last opened Dolphin (or some other fm).