Re: TIP: semi-bulk changing the extension of file names in dired

* Pierre Rouleau <[email protected]> [2026-03-16 15:35]:
> > I publish the macOS Number file here:
> https://github.com/pierre-rouleau/pel-pdf-spreadsheet
> The licence info is inside the first tab.
> I am currently publishing it under GPL-3.0.  Should I (can I) change to GNU
> Free Documentation?

I would say no need to bother with it.

It is amazing to see how much effort has been put to it.

> As I said earlier I which I had found a markup powerful enough to
> build this instead of using a spreadsheet.

You found your way, that is nice. And those are PDF files linking to
each other.

> I did not have the time to build a specialized markup that I could
> have used and it was faster for me to start using a spreadsheet.
> However over time the tools available via Number are far from what
> would be available under Emacs...  Perhaps I'll be able to use AI at
> some point to help maintain the content of the spreadsheet.

Oh, yes, that is quite possible. Me personally I have template
interpolation system, so I would probably have a spreedsheet with
categories and placeholders or template tags that interpolate to
whatever update necessary, something like ⟦ (rcd-llm-fun-describe 'speedbar-prev) ⟧

Which would call locally running LLM, which knows the full package
information, with embeddings or full context, or can call MCP server
to get Emacs function arguments to expand the usage in the specific
field of the spreadsheet. In my case I would be using just plain text
that would expand into tables that become the PDF.

> There are several limitations to it.

> - All hyperlinks are all absolute, pointing to the files stored in
>   Github.  Ideally the links would be relative allowing storage of
>   the files anywhere, including a local server.  But I did not find
>   a way to create relative links with Number.

In your source script, you could have main URL somewhere defined, and
all other URLs using first main URL with relative links added to
it. This way other users could easier configure and publish it on
different domains.

> - Editing must be done with macOS Number, a non-free application
> that is (AFAIK) only available on macOS.

Oops.

> I don't update the spreadsheet source very often. I just updated it now.

-- 
Jean Louis