From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:55:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20070603195501.GA2797@kobe.laptop> References: <87d50i42h3.fsf@escher.local.home> <85veea18r6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853b1cz2pm.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87abvkqlwq.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> <876468qlsl.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com> <87ps4endh3.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180900637 3473 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 19:57:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 21:57:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuwCN-0000Q3-7I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:57:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuwCM-0001SC-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuwCI-0001LO-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuwCG-0001Fa-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuwCG-0001FX-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from igloo.linux.gr ([62.1.205.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuwCF-0006rs-V7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l53JtJxK028282 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:55:25 +0300 Original-Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l53Jt1Ns002852; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:55:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l53Jt1e2002851; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:55:01 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ps4endh3.fsf@jurta.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.529, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.67, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72131 Archived-At: On 2007-06-03 02:28, Juri Linkov wrote: >>> The problem with this setting is that it emphasizes the fact that >>> Emacs doesn't support cross-device recursive copies. >> ^^^^^^ >> I meant `renames' of course. Copies will now work recursively by >> default, renames will as well, unless the destination is on another >> device. > > Could we eliminate this restriction in dired since now coreutils supports > cross-partition recursive directory renames. Emacs runs on platforms where coreutils is not installed, though (typical examples of this are BSD / Solaris workstations) :-/