[h-e-w] wdired, was: isearch-rename-all-matching-filenames-in-tree?

[Thomas L Roche]

I wrote:
>> Use case: I'm in a dired buffer in GNU Emacs 21.1.1 on w2k. I
>> want to _interactively_ rename any file

>> - in the directory tree below the current directory

>> - with name matching '*GenericAction*'

>> to '*ActionClass*', in the same directory.

Stefan Monnier replied:
> Try wdired, it's great for those kind of things.

Indeed! Just one small annoyance: it (i.e. 1.9.2pre3

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=wdired+group:gnu.emacs.sources&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=08z7ewvxy.fsf%40or170137.tecsidel.es&rnum=1

) won't byte-compile on my GNU Emacs 21.1.1
(i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2001-10-22 on buffy:

*Compile-Log*
> Compiling file t:/tlroche/emacs/wdired.el at Mon Oct 14 18:41:14 2002
>   ** assignment to free variable wdired-xemacs-menu
>   ** reference to free variable wdired-xemacs-menu

> While compiling wdired-normalize-filename:
>   ** reference to free variable dired-internal-switches

> While compiling wdired-finish-edit:
>   ** dired-log-summary called with 3 arguments, but accepts only 2

> While compiling the end of the data:
>   ** The following functions are not known to be defined: push-tag-mark,
>     add-menu-button, add-submenu, delete-menu-item

Is there a recommended version that does byte-compile?