Re: When using rectangle-mark-mode in an editable dired buffer, how can I edit the region?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Bob,

some thoughts:

You could kill the rectangle from writable dired, paste it into a helper
buffer, do your modifications there, kill the modified text as a
rectangle from there, and paste the rectangle back to wdired.  You may
have to handle introduced trailing whitespace, however.

Other options are keyboard macros, dired-map-over-marks,
dired-do-rename-regexp - or you might like to use "multiple-cursors.el",
I guess it comes closest to your initial idea, AFAIR it support multiple
regions (one separate pseudo-region per line) and can run commands once
per every pseudo-region.


Michael.