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Program to rename, remove, and copy files and directories using your editor

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2024-05-10 · latest 2026-10-24

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  1. Be very careful with vidir as deleting happens unprompted. I find edir to be a better alternative. https://github.com/bulletmark/edir
  2. Try vidir from moreutils (or its improved version, https://github.com/bulletmark/edir ). It opens the list of filenames in a given directory (or set of files passed on cmdline) in an editor of your choice, and then you use your editor to…
    comment by caspar · 2026-07-13 · in Good Tools Are Invisible
  3. …that looks like this: ... 0093<tab>./fstab 0094<tab>./fuse.conf 0095<tab>./fwupd ... There is also https://github.com/bulletmark/edir designed to improve on vidir. I haven't used it yet. I'll give Emacs another try some day, I swear, and…
    comment by networked · 2025-07-06 · in Take Two: Eshell
  4. …in bulk. Gluing them both together is really easy too. - [0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf - [1] https://github.com/bulletmark/edir
    comment by monopoliessuck · 2024-05-10 · in Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager