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Re: "Edit" files names

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Let's assume I have a garbled file name that I want to rename more
> conveniently into an editor, without painful escaping.
>
> I'd like to do the following:
>
> $ editname *garbled*
>
> popping my $EDITOR with a file containing the original file name
> (unescaped), and upon saving+closing, renames the original into the new
> name provided. If the pattern expands to more files, it just repeats for
> each file, in turn.
>
> It's not hard to implement, but does anybody know of a tool which
> already does that (or something very similar)?

Have you tried the edit-command-line widget?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson
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