vidir

Is <https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir> the same as `vidir` from <https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/>? Shout out to moreutils, there are many nice utilities, and there's a `moreutils` package in most distributions. Update: Looking at the authors listed in the man pages, the `trapd00r` version looks to be a fork of the moreutils version. Not sure how the functionality compares. Both versions seem to have been updated since the fork.

> For file management these days, Dired is my interface of choice. It is simply the more elegant tool for the job. Case in point: renaming a bunch of files in a directory to arbitrary names. With a shell, my standard approach would have been to run some variant of `ls -1 > foo.sh`, edit `foo.sh` to insert `mv` on each line to a renamed target file, `chmod u+x foo.sh` to be executable, run `foo.sh`, delete `foo.sh` and call it a day. I used to do this before I discovered vidir. [1] vidir is not actually tied to vi; it lets you rename and delete files through your `$EDITOR`. You edit a temporary file 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,

I just learned about vidir [1]. Emacs Dired [2] can rename & delete files by editing the buffer directly, and let's say I was thrilled when I saw someone replicated that behavior as a general Unix tool. [1] https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wd...

https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir looks like a fork of moreutils' vidir.

vidir is another one of these. Despite the name it works with any EDITOR. https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir Seems like the main difference compared to Roamer is that it just uses numbered lines instead of hashes.