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"leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com> wrote:

> example: sitting on the file
>   /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name
> i invoke dired-do-rename (by key "R") and get a minibuffer just with:
>   /Users/leo/
> and i want some easy to get to
>    /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name
> so that i can quickly change it to:
>    /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name-two
>

solution 1:
w , R, C-y

solution 2:
check out wdired.el at
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=gnu.emacs.sources&as_q=wdired


-- 
Dryice Liu