This can easily be done using dired: Enter a dired view of your directory Switch to writable dired mode (wdired-change-to-wdired-mode): C-xC-q Edit the file names listing as if it were a normal buffer (for example using a keyboard macro or a rectangular selection or query-replace). Here is a regexp-based solution: C-M-%\(VAR.\)_\(..\)RET\2_\1RET Finish editing (wdired-finish-edit): C-xC-s … Read more
Yes. Use ! while in dired to run a shell command on a file. In the case of evince, it’s smarter to use &, though, which will run the command asynchronously, so emacs will still be usable while you have the PDF open.
In Emacs 23.2 and higher, the dired-x.el module is available, and it gives you access to a command that does exactly what you want. After you load it (just (load “dired-x”), normally), you’ll be able to invoke the function dired-do-find-marked-files. Here’s its built-in documentation: (dired-do-find-marked-files &optional NOSELECT) Find all marked files displaying all of them … Read more
Why are you clicking on things with a mouse? I thought you’re using Emacs? Move point to the line you’re interested in and press o to open it in another window or C-o to open the file but stay on Dired buffer. If you must do it with the mouse, use middle-click to do the … Read more
Use a (dired-find-alternate-file) instead of Enter Also, see this page: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredReuseDirectoryBuffer
Just press C-x C-f. This will prompt for a filename, using the current directory of the current buffer as the directory to put it in. For a dired buffer, its current directory is simply the directory you are looking at.
You can use the touch command: M-! touch __init__.py RET