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Re: dired rename backup file too
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Xah Lee |
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Re: dired rename backup file too |
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:40:56 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Mar 22, 3:50 am, Uday Reddy <uDOTsDOTre...@cs.bham.ac.uk> 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. Meanwhile, other Operating Systems like Win32 have
> been editing file names for ages. GNU is *not Unix*. We forget that to
> our own detriment.
haha. Are you being sarcastic? ☺
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