Help button does nothing

[Jeff Van Epps]

Binary package hint: purrr

Help button in lower left corner of window does nothing. I presumed it would at least explain the syntax for the 'Name template' field.

Purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu 8.10

[David Futcher (bobbo)]

Due to time constaints I am currently unable to fix this bug for Jaunty. Other developers, feel free to take this over. I will aim to get this into Karmic if it's unfixed in Jaunty.

[László Garzó (laszlo-garzo)]

This is my take on the missing help page „reverse engineered” from the source code, since there is no help as described above.

(I have used this source code: http://purrr.sourcearchive.com/documentation/0.8~prerelease/renamer_8py-source.html)

The purrr expressions should be written in angled brackets: e.g. [N] and should not contain spaces inside these brackets. They are only described with spaces for readability purposes below.

The possible expressions are:

* Counter: C digit1 [,[+-]digit2] [,[+-]digit3] [,digit4]
 * digit1 - Counter identification. Specifying a unique number will result different possible counters. So it is possible to have 2 different counters, one incrementing by 1 and the other incrementing by 2 from zero. It is important to specify different identifier numbers here, otherwise the counters will behave the same.
 * digit2 - starting value of the counter
 * digit3 - increment
 * digit4 - display width (number of digits in the counter, padded with zeroes from left if needed)
 * Examples:
  * [c,,,2] two digits wide counter incrementing from zero by one
  * [c,1,1,2] same as above, but specifying every parameter
  * [c1,,,2]-[c2,0,2,2] two different counters for each file name. The first is 2 digits wide and increments from zero by 1, the second is also 2 digits wide but increments from zero by 2. (Although I am still puzzled for a user case of this example.)
 * Note: having negative increments will result in unexpected display

* Name: N [_!] [digit1:digit2]
 * ! - Uppercase conversion
 * _ - Underscore character to space conversion
 * digit1 - start of substring
 * digit2 - end of substring
 * Examples:
  * [n] - The whole filename
  * [n5:10] - The filename from character 5 to character 10
  * [n:10] - The first 10 characters of the filename
  * [n5:] - The filename from character 5 to the last character
  * [n!] - The filename converted to all uppercase

* Base name (filename without extension): B [_!] [digit1:digit2]
 * Usage is the same as with the name expression.

* Extension: E [_!] [digit1:digit2]
 * Usage is the same as with the name expression.

[PomCompot (pomme-compote-launchpad)]

Thanks a lot for having take time to look at this.

[Leonardo Corato (leocor)]

In Oneiric this bug still exists!

[Reg (robolair)]

Thank you so much for this. It is difficult to use this application without any explanation, but once you explained it, I found it very useful.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Removing packages from raring:
        purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1 in raring
                purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1 in raring amd64
                purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1 in raring armhf
                purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1 in raring i386
                purrr 0.8~prerelease-0ubuntu1 in raring powerpc
Comment: Not in Debian, dead upstream, alternatives available - pyrenamer..
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