To change the target of a symbolic link, edit the link target name
which appears next to the link name.
+ If you edit the file names to create a new subdirectory, Wdired will
+automatically create these new directories. To inhibit this behavior,
+set @code{wdired-create-parent-directories} to @code{nil}.
+
The rest of the text in the buffer, such as the file sizes and
modification dates, is marked read-only, so you can't edit it.
However, if you set @code{wdired-allow-to-change-permissions} to
compression command is determined from the new
`dired-compress-files-alist' variable.
++++
+*** In wdired, when editing files to contain slash characters,
+the resulting directories are automatically created. Whether
+to do this or not is controlled by the
+`wdired-create-parent-directories' variable.
+
+++
*** `W' is now bound to `browse-url-of-dired-file', and is useful for
viewing HTML files and the like.
:version "24.3"
:group 'wdired)
+(defcustom wdired-create-parent-directories t
+ "If non-nil, create parent directories of destination files.
+If non-nil, when you rename a file to a destination path within a
+nonexistent directory, wdired will create any parent directories
+necessary. When nil, attempts to rename a file into a
+nonexistent directory will fail."
+ :version "25.2"
+ :type 'boolean
+ :group 'wdired)
+
(defvar wdired-mode-map
(let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
(define-key map "\C-x\C-s" 'wdired-finish-edit)
(require 'dired-aux)
(condition-case err
(let ((dired-backup-overwrite nil))
+ (and wdired-create-parent-directories
+ (wdired-create-parentdirs file-new))
(dired-rename-file file-ori file-new
overwrite))
(error
err)))))))))
errors))
+(defun wdired-create-parentdirs (file-new)
+ "Create parent directories for FILE-NEW if they don't exist."
+ (and (not (file-exists-p (file-name-directory file-new)))
+ (message "Creating directory for file %s" file-new)
+ (make-directory (file-name-directory file-new) t)))
(defun wdired-exit ()
"Exit wdired and return to dired mode.