I do not know ranger, but I personally use vimv. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are a lot of tools dedicated to this. My past favourite is vimv [1]. However, for me this operation is so rare that having a separate command just for mass-renaming files does not seem to be justified. [1]: https://github.com/thameera/vimv. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
It's inspired by vimv which is a bulk-rename utility that uses vim. Source: about 3 years ago
I find myself using vimv quite a lot as I need to rename files on regular basis. It's a bulk renamer that uses vim. I also just created a similar tool for bulk removing files virm. The motivation was that one time when I opened vimv and deleted a line and expected it to delete that file xD. Source: about 3 years ago
Brn is a command line tool similar to vimv. It can be used to easily mass-rename files in your preferred text editor. Source: about 3 years ago
Here is one more version implemented in bash, with viewer lines - https://github.com/thameera/vimv. Source: over 3 years ago
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