From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: mvar.40k@gmail.com, 11912@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:57:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mJ6Wd-0004uX-Fw@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r6hn64r.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:57:56 +0200)
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> I understand the security-related reasons for changing the `M' command,
> but I'm wondering whether they are weighty enough to make it more
> inconvenient for the user to use symlinks in Emacs.
It's not just for the sake of security. Dired commands generally
operate on the files you see in the Dired buffer. If what you see in
the dired buffer is a symlink, it is still surprising for a Dired command
to alter the file that the symlink points to.
I wouldn't assume that a user who uses M on a symlink in Dired wants
to alter the file it points to. I think it is more likely that the
user did not realize it might do that. Suppose you operate on 10
files and one is a symlink -- you might not even have noticed that one
is as symlink.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-26 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-11 16:30 bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-24 10:23 ` Michalis V.
2021-08-24 15:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-24 17:32 ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-25 10:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-25 17:59 ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-26 13:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 3:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-08-26 13:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-26 14:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-26 16:52 ` Paul Eggert
2021-08-27 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-25 8:37 ` Michalis V.
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