From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:09:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4662BD9F.3030503@gmx.at> 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> <86myzh636m.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87ira5s8a5.fsf@jurta.org> <87d50dpbql.fsf@debby.local.net> <878xb1jl1d.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180876192 29357 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 13:09:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dieter Wilhelm , 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 15:09:51 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 1Hupq8-0000aO-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:09:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hupq8-0004Rg-9u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hupq3-0004Kt-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hupq1-0004E0-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hupq1-0004DE-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hupq1-0004j6-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Jun 2007 13:09:39 -0000 Original-Received: from M3190P025.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [88.117.46.185]) [88.117.46.185] by mail.gmx.net (mp053) with SMTP; 03 Jun 2007 15:09:39 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/TsvUHziTT/o8Z3keCeAUStj6DBUFA/LNQg9fqCw fEhaamQkxEKmeg User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <878xb1jl1d.fsf@jurta.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:72112 Archived-At: > I wonder what would be the best way to implement this in dired: get code >>from coreutils (that updates directories like `cp -u', moves directories > between partitions etc.), or make dired commands to run coreutils commands > like `cp' and `mv' directly with appropriate switches. It seems strange > that dired uses external commands like `ls', and doesn't use `cp' and `mv'. Because no one wrote the emulators cp-lisp.el and mv-lisp.el yet?