#279: Autorename when copying/moving files --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: styx | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: 4.7 Component: mc-core | Version: 4.6.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Blocking: | Blockedby: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment(by kdave): Replying to [ticket:279 styx]: > When files with the same names already exists, should be a button, to copy the files with autorenaming. Sounds reasonable. Howeve I see problems with the autorename rules. I think regexp pattern is not the best way to do that, since filenames can be of any form (eg. no ".extension", etc). > result: file.txt, 2.file.txt 3.file.txt 4.file.txt This does not seem good since I want to see the renamed files togather. They may have same name but different contents. Prefixing the name with number will list the files far away from each other. > or: file.txt, file.txt.2 file.txt.3 file.txt.4 This resembles manpage names, it does add anotherl level of "extension" wich again may lead to different associated program to call via mcext. > or: file.txt, file(2).txt file(3).txt file(4).txt This one is good, preserves the extension (if there is any), number can be extracted and incremented. > maybe user should have a posibility to set a rule how to rename via regexp or something like that. Rather some printf-like syntax using %f %e %n, f - filename up to last ".", e - "extension", n - the number to increment. Using regexp for such task does not seem to be appropriate. I think MC should use a robust renaming scheme internally, and user should not need to change it in most cases, but it should be possible. Eg. to change the scheme to "%f_%n.%e". Thinking further, the regex approach may nicely extend the "printf" scheme. Each of the %x macros can have it's own regexp configurable. Eg. "%e=[^.]$". -- Ticket URL: <www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/279#comment:1> Midnight Commander <www.midnight-commander.org> Midnight Development Center _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel