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Originally Posted by meme
In what situations would this be useful? I left rename out (Add Semantics is in, though not as useful) as I didn't see a push for it, so its interesting that that's the first thing mentioned out of everything 
Any examples of how you see this working? Numbers at front, at end, in the middle, what text to use if any, what to do with existing names/numbers?
I suppose you might mean you want to rename each file as say Section0001, Section0002, ... deleting whatever name was there before, and possibly appending a letter or aborting if one of the names already exists. Maybe even prompt for the prefix to add to the numbers (which we probably should keep at the end to avoid anything over-fancy), or take the name part from the first entry (but that gets a bit more tricky). |
Probably the biggest reason for wanting this feature is to make sense out great long or cryptic file names. It just makes editing a lot easier if you can easily identify a particular file.
I would envision it working something like this:
1-Select a range of files, right click and select rename.
2-Entering "part1_chap\1" would result in:
part1_chap1.XXXX
part1_chap2.XXXX - - etc
The back slash, or whatever character is chosen, indicates the starting number to increment. "part1" is just text and would not be incremented.The file extension would remain unchanged.
Thanks for taking an interest in this.
Regards - John