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Obligatory mention of emacs wdired-mode, which sounds very similar. I mention it because I used emacs for almost a decade before noticing that there's a wdired
by philsnow 8y ago
Obligatory mention of emacs wdired-mode, which sounds very similar. I mention it because I used emacs for almost a decade before noticing that there's a wdired mode as well as dired mode.
- kqr 8y agoThere also sunrise mode, which combines (w)dired with ortodox file managers. Easily one of the best ways to deal with files. Particularly in combination with Tramp...
- jskulski 8y agoWhat is sunrise mode? Are you referring to https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Sunrise_Commander ?
- j88439h84 8y agoSunrise Commander is my favorite https://github.com/escherdragon/sunrise-commander https://github.com/escherdragon/sunrise-commander
- agumonkey 8y agoI like the idea but it's often confusing and frightening to edit shit like that in emacs, especially if you start automating through keyboard macros
- eddieh 8y agoC-x C-q from dired-mode to enter editable/writable mode, then C-c C-c when done.