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If your EDITOR is already emacs, just use 'wdired'. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wdired.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ma
by jxy 9y ago
If your EDITOR is already emacs, just use 'wdired'.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wdired.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...
- ams6110 9y agoHeh I've used emacs for years and never knew about this. I actually don't tend to use emacs as a file manager for whatever reason. I find shell file utility commands along with sed, awk, xargs to be adequate.
- penpapersw 9y agoThis, plus the multiple-cursors package, can save entire minutes off tedious file-renaming operations. (That may not sound like a lot but trust me every second counts when you're just renaming files.)
- pvdebbe 9y agowdired was a revelation on what an editor can do with capable and imaginative developers on it.
- agumonkey 9y agoEmacs mostest problem : too many features unless you spend 5 years in it I liked that roamer has a similar idea, the name/hash lines seems very straightforward. Also a bit of acme in it where text as a bit of meaning. Maybe it will give wdired ideas too.
- halfspin 9y agoYes, like 'M-x calc' which gives you a very decent RPN calculator.
- agumonkey 9y agooh calc is way more than that. it's a cute CAS. And a nice RPN calc. (which I think is simple-calc-mode actually) Emacs also has bindat, a nice DSL to create bytes structures (for network packets or FFI) And that's just the vanilla distribution.. Anyway lisp.
- NTripleOne 9y agoOut of curiosity, why did you capitalise editor?
- js2 9y agoIt's the name of an environment variable that most programs respect when opening an editor.
- NTripleOne 9y agoAh, fair enough. I wasn't sure it emphasis as part of the whole "editor vs ide" dealio.