23 May
2001
23 May
'01
6:03 a.m.
The "classic" way to do this is emacs "dired". I'll beat your
WIMP interface
with my kbd every time.
-Mike
"Emacs isn't an editor; it's a religion." - rms at an SVLUG meeting,
before
rendering St. Ignucious (get it? I-GNU-cious...) with a 14" disk platter
on his head for a "halo" effect.
On Wed, 23 May 2001, John Foust wrote:
At 07:32 PM 5/22/01 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Like selecting multiple items, then dragging and
dropping them. Well,
it's easier at least. Otherwise, I can do everything faster in a command
line.
OK, let's race. I think it's easy to think of counter-examples,
even though I'm a fan of command-line power in the right situation.
Given a folder full of 100 documents with long, human-friendly
filenames with no relevant pattern involving strings of characters
or dates, delete a given random set of 50 of those files. I'll use
any windowing system, you'll use 'del' or 'rm'. I think an extended
select (via CTRL) and a drag to the trash would win on either Mac or
Windows, don't you?
While 'rm' might have an interactive "yes/no" option, which
other command-line tools have it? Sure, you can write anything
in a script...
- John