wdired mode
A little-known (to me :-) gem of emacs is wdired-mode, which is in emacs-goodies-el on Debian. With this installed, you can press r in the directory editor, and change the names of files by directly writing over them, more or less as in Nautilus or Mac OS.
More in this vein on EmacsWiki.
posted Wed 17 Sep 2003 in /software/emacs | link
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