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Re: wdired -- nifty indeed. BUT "m" --> "*"-mark has NO EFFECT on query-
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José A . Romero L . |
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Re: wdired -- nifty indeed. BUT "m" --> "*"-mark has NO EFFECT on query-replace |
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Sun, 9 Jan 2011 04:23:15 -0800 (PST) |
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On 9 Sty, 01:38, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
> What would be cool with wdired would to be able to "mark"
> certain files, and then by a global edit, like a query-replace "!",
> to change only *those* files' names.
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> Unfortunately, query-replace "!" changes ALL of them, marked or not.
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> Ideas?
(...)
Sure:
1) (In Dired) mark all the files you want to rename
2) Press t k
3) Enter WDired and do you query-replace with "!"
Cheers,
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José A. Romero L.
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