Subject: bug#6823: 24.0.50; Wdired or Dired enhancement

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:59:15 +0300

> From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 11:37:43 -0700
> Cc: 
> 
> Emacs sorely needs one or more commands that let you rename the
> marked files as a sequence (following a pattern).

Doesn't the "% R" command in Dired use query-replace under the hood?
If so, doesn't it already allow to include Lisp expressions in the
replacement that are eval'ed?