From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: patch-copy-dir-with-stefan-changes Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:43 -0500 Message-ID: <871v3e9lr4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mxm7wnk2.fsf@gmail.com> <87mxm7c9ut.fsf@gmail.com> <87r5bh2sf8.fsf@gmail.com> <871v3hgkid.fsf@gmail.com> <87vd0s8eso.fsf@gmx.de> <878vxngaa3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87tygblv79.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297468090 5121 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2011 23:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 00:48:06 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Po2ib-0004y4-QH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:48:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57082 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Po2ia-0005TF-RU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:48:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51751 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Po2iO-0005SA-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Po2iN-0007kA-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.147]:41281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Po2iN-0007jx-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:51 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014062.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.62]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-06.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1BNli6D015423 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:45 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FB5716055E; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:47:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87tygblv79.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:18:18 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.147 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.147 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:135920 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > I reread the thread. It didn't convince me, that we shall copy "the > *contents* of one directory" with `copy-directory'. This would be a new > behaviour. What is it good for? How would you do "cp -r a/* b/"?