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24.0.50; Wdired or Dired enhancement

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6823: 24.0.50; Wdired or Dired enhancement
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:08:10 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
>> 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).
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> 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?

It seem "%R" rename only files matching regexp to newname but
doesn't allow the use of "\," and "\#" in the regexp replacement like
query-replace-regexp does.

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