Yep, and wdired does a few more things as well. From its commentary: - To move files to another directory (by typing their path, absolute or relative, as a par

Yep, and wdired does a few more things as well. From its commentary: - To move files to another directory (by typing their path, absolute or relative, as a part of the new filename). - To change the target of symbolic links. - To change the permission bits of the filenames (in systems with a working unix-alike `dired-chmod-program'). [...] - To mark files for deletion, by deleting their whole filename.