#279: Autorename when copying/moving files
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Reporter: styx | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major| Milestone: 4.7
Component: mc-core | Version: 4.6.2
Resolution: |Keywords:
Blocking: | Blockedby:
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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=[^.]$.
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