Re: dired rename backup file too

[Uday Reddy]

On 3/22/2011 12:40 PM, Xah Lee wrote:

> haha. Are you being sarcastic? ☺

No, I was being serious.  I was trying to point out how buying into the 
Unix way of doing things can block us from doing the right things.

>   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.

Dired allowed you to *rename* files, which is not the same as editing 
file names.  Sometimes, I work with some long file names for which 
renaming - the Unix way - isn't the right solution.  People that have 
used DOS, or its predecessors like CP/M, TOPS-20, TOPS-10 etc., know of 
better ways of doing it.

Yes, Wdired is a great advance.  I agree fully!  That is what GNU and 
Emacs are all about: making advances in user interfaces and building the 
right tools for the right problems.

Cheers,
Uday