[Zobat]

Using well thought out interfaces is a joy wherever we find them.

Something in your comment made me remember a DOS based file "explorer". Screen split down the middle with a folder-tree and file list on both sides. I remember hardly ever turning on the computer without starting that for one task or another. That was some serious UI pleasure, at least for the time. Ha, found it:

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Software:File_Commander

Ah, the nostalgia!

[kickingvegas]

Nostalgia no more! Midnight Commander/4DOS style file management can be achieved with Emacs Dired today and then some.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...

For your consideration, I built a keyboard-driven menu interface for Dired called Casual to help with discovery. https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/Dired.html

[IronBacon]

In my opinion Dired is the best way to rename files bar none (wdired-mode)...