Ubuntu :: Move/rename With A Link?

I feel like this should have come up before, but is there a convenient way of moving something [directory is what I care about] while leaving a symbolic link in its place? Currently the best way I can find is:

Terminal:
-script of 'mv "$1" "$2"; ln -s "$2" "$1"'
-requires typing out the target name, since it tab completion doesn't work on non-existent things.
GUI:
-move
-rename [copy content first]
-link back
-rename link [paste previous content]

The terminal way defeats the point of using the GUI to easily drag and drop things around, and the GUI is rather clumsy when I have to use copy and paste to even make it work. Being able to manually edit a link target would simplify it, but I don't know of a way to do that.

Note that I'm pretty sure I don't want a terminal solution here, because it's stuff which I don't want to type (and sometimes can't.. seriously, I don't want to try to type a star). Example:

#source:
foo/Some Long thing that has ~random~ characters[a#$%] (%^^) that are annoying!/
#target:
bar/Something Short/