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I know I can move files by renaming them in wdired mode. I am wondering if there is a chance of creating, copying, deleting files/directories in writable dired mode.

Yuki
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No. C-h m in Wdired mode tells you this, among other things:

In WDired mode, you can edit the names of the files in the buffer, the target of the links, and the permission bits of the files.

and this:

The only editable texts in a WDired buffer are filenames, symbolic link targets, and filenames permission.

Just use C-x C-q to toggle back to regular Dired mode, where you can easily create, copy, and delete files and directories.

Drew
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    I see. Though wdired is magnificent, it could be even better, because actually if you need create or duplicate (copy) a lot of files creating them through one-by-one minibuffer input is tedious, I will probably use command line for that. – Yuki Oct 07 '18 at 01:56