Re: [Ranger-users] Any support for batch renaming?

[XeCycle]

Wow, this is nice.

But I still want something more nicely integrated into
ranger, as both ways seem *dirty*. Perhaps following the way
of ROX-Filer is the solution? btw, I really liked rox for
its lovely bulkrenaming.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:18:20AM -0400, David Barnett wrote:
> There's a tool called vidir in a neat little package called moreutils that 
> lets
> you do exactly that. It opens up a vim buffer with all the filenames and lets
> you edit them, and then does a batch rename when you write and quit.
> 
> David
> 
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Roman Z. <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>     There's one on rangers wiki:
>     http://ourproject.org/moin/projects/ranger/bulkrename
> 
>     I wanted to add a :s command but it could mess things up badly,
>     since there is no undo-function (yet?)
> 
>     btw. I'm curious about the way you usually do it, wanna share?
> 
>     On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:56:36PM +0800, XeCycle wrote:
>     > For now, I didn't find any built-in support for batch
>     > renaming. It'll be great if I can rename files in current
>     > folder or currently marked files with a simple vim
>     > style :s/a/b/g. I can do this trick with several commands,
>     > but don't know whether ranger support commands in this
>     > style.
>     >
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