GNU bug report logs - #3870
dired-do-rename-regexp works backwards through the list

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:05:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: unreproducible

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 3870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3870: dired-do-rename-regexp works backwards through the list
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:55:08 +0200
jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> dired-do-rename-regexp does its job, but seems to work backwards through
> the list of marked files, and doesn't put the cursor upon the item it is
> working on as best it could.
> E.g., $ touch aa1 aa2 aa3, mark them (m m m), then run
> (dired-do-rename-regexp "aa" "bb" nil nil)

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 24 -- the files are renamed in the
order they were marked, so this was probably fixed.

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