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Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) by IronBacon on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:01PM (#18602565)
Forget Org mode, forget Tramp, the killer feature is renaming multiple files with Dired! ^__~
Re:Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) by TeMPOraL on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:08PM (#18604039)
Totally. C-x C-q on a dired buffer, and you can edit most of what's essentially an ls output as if it was a text file. C-c C-c to commit changes. I find myself using it very frequently for file management.