XYplorer Beta Club

There is already an option to convert spaces to underscores and underscores back to spaces, but there is no such thing for hyphens. There are quite a lot of people who prefer hyphens, not underscores, so I think it will be fine to have such renaming in XY.

Actually, what most file-naming style guides suggest is to use spaces for hyphens, while underscores to delimit metadata parts. Something like this:

Good afternoon !
I found myself using spaces to hyphens, hyphens to spaces quite a bit lately and just added a few patterns to the Rename Special > RegEx Rename... menu : I'm not the best regex-er, but this is working for my file structures. Probably a cleaner way.

What I haven't done is look to see if these menu entries support a naming reminder.
For example, would show friendly reminder text in the rename dialog as to what the pattern does.

Yes, thanks. I don't really need to convert spaces to hyphens myself, all of my files are already named correctly :-)

I just mean that having support for underscores but not having support for hyphens is "technically unfair".

Yes, it's "technically unfair", but nobody ever complained in the last 20 years. Let's see if you can get a crowd together.