Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 05, 2007 10:54 PM
As usual, people who live inside emacs neither have to install a kludgy GUI nor write for;mv;sed one-liners to do the same - on whatever machine they like:
1) C-x d to start dired
2) choose a directory
3) M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
4) edit dired buffer just as if it was a normal one
5) C-c C-c to save your changes
The wdired mode is truly wonderful and underappreciated. Notice that you have all capabilities the editor gives you: search and replace, regexp, macros, etc..all this while editing file names! And of course the directory listing itself can be customized using dired beforehand.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 05, 2007 10:54 PM1) C-x d to start dired
2) choose a directory
3) M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
4) edit dired buffer just as if it was a normal one
5) C-c C-c to save your changes
The wdired mode is truly wonderful and underappreciated. Notice that you have all capabilities the editor gives you: search and replace, regexp, macros, etc..all this while editing file names! And of course the directory listing itself can be customized using dired beforehand.
Isn't that great?<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
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