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Re: dired rename backup file too
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David Combs |
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Re: dired rename backup file too |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 07:14:30 +0000 (UTC) |
In article <4d88edf9$0$23762$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,
Uday Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
>On 3/22/2011 12:40 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
>
>> haha. Are you being sarcastic? âº
>
>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
I still have no idea what you're talking about.
Editing file names -- you mean like in word, or a Notepad file, in the
middle of a sentence?
Or do you really mean editing a filename, and when done, the
name of the file on disk has really changed?
Heck, I used tops-20 ("twenex") for years, and never heard of
what I think you're talking about.
Please elaborate a bit.
Thanks!
David