2025-12-30
*- I learned about grease.el via Emacs News.
- Allows file operations by editing a buffer.
- Then I learned from the comments in that Reddit thread about wdired and similar capabilities.
- I just tried it, and it's perfect for solving the problem I have of org-roam's addition of a timestamp to the front of filenames, and how messy that is when I publish to the web, for those that were created a while ago before I changed how that works. (Or those created on mobile in Doom where I still haven't changed it).
- With wdired I can select a rectangle of all those parts of the filenames in the buffer, and delete them, save the buffer, et volia, all the filenames updated! Neat.
- I have a niggling feeling that one day I may regret removing timestamps from filenames. Some people seem to prefer it that way. But I really don't like filenames being used to store meta information.
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