Re: How to modify 'write-file'

[Andreas Politz]

"richard.christensen" <richard.christensen@avagotech.com> writes:

> Thanks.  A friend of mine suggested using Dired as well.  Your
> approach is more complete.  I really should get more familiar with it
> and use it more.
>
> richard
>
>>
>> I would use dired for this.  First create a dired buffer with the files,
>> or a superset it, with `dired', `find-dired' or some other incarnation.
>>
>> Then
>> M-x wdired-change-to-dired-mode RET
                        ^
I missed a `w' in there, the command is called
`wdired-change-to-wdired-mode'.

>> and it let's you edit the file-names, after which you press `C-c C-c'
>> and commit the changes to the filesystem.
>>
-ap