Random thoughts

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Jeff Lebowski

Quick note on how to edit Emacs Dired buffers

When using Dired to view and move around files, I often to rename stuff. There is a quick way to do it: Wdired.

The quick instructions when you’re in a dired buffer:

  1. C-x C-q
  2. change things
  3. C-c C-c

To read the documentation on this feature from within Emacs: C-h F and wdired-change-to-wdired-mode

The documentation is available online here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wdired.html