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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:38:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shq8q0cg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY2iedHj-cLxmwTmQCegPZNjqyS6MafGdorNRLrMFfhicA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Kaushal Modi on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:04:17 +0000)

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:04:17 +0000
> 
> Can you review and comment on the below patch. I came up with a necessity
> to copy symlinks from one dired buffer to another dired buffer as a
> dereferenced copy of that symlink.
> 
> In terminal, I would use the -L option of the cp command to do the same.
> 
> The current default behavior is unchanged as the new defcustom
> dired-copy-dereference is set to nil.

Shouldn't the doc string of dired-do-copy be updated with a reference
to the new variable?

Likewise the Emacs User manual should be updated.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-30 18:38 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 [this message]
2016-11-30 18:42   ` Kaushal Modi
2016-12-01  0:38 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-01  3:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
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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