Hi Eli,

Thanks, I will work on that next and submit an updated patch. My first
patch was just so that it gets reviewed for functionality.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 1:39 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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.
>
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Kaushal Modi