Re: [Midnight Commander] #279: Autorename when copying/moving files

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#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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