From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com
Subject: bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:39:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2bkpbb7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k0fum8a3fk.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500
> Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Kaushal Modi wrote:
>
> > +(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil
> > + "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them.
>
> I can't imagine anyone needing this as an option they can set for all
> future uses. Surely what someone might need is a way to make one
> specific copy command dereference? As a prefix argument or a separate
> command, or whatever.
That was my first thought as well, but we use the same approach as
Kaushal proposed for the equivalent of the -p switch to 'cp'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-01 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-30 18:04 bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying Kaushal Modi
2016-11-30 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-30 18:42 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-12-01 0:38 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-01 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-01 4:12 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-12-01 6:06 ` Kaushal Modi
2020-08-11 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-24 23:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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