From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:34:58 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87d50dpbql.fsf@debby.local.net> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180866955 6204 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 10:35:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:35:55 +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 12:35:54 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 1HunRA-00043F-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:35:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HunR9-0001Qp-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HunR5-0001Qj-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:35:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HunR3-0001QX-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HunR3-0001QU-Q1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:35:45 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HunR2-0002wO-K3; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [89.12.127.160] (helo=debby.local.net) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1HunQy0AgA-0008JU; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:35:40 +0200 Original-Received: from dieter by debby.local.net with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HunQI-0001AM-8W; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:34:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ira5s8a5.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun\, 03 Jun 2007 12\:29\:22 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18RtWMx8MRTejrq4ppj/uJ5eVz+3BDldtOlJUp Q7T7rf+84nYWZvKgM0XzcgctlHfeSVGSFSqY+e1UGtkhU/VqPS R6L+xS0GfT5k2d3LI00BmrZtpJV86qt X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:72109 Archived-At: Hi Juri Linkov writes: >>> Could we eliminate this restriction in dired since now coreutils supports >>> cross-partition recursive directory renames. It would be great if dired had also a way of updating directory trees similar to 'cp -u' or 'midnight-commander'. The only workaround I found so far is to 'dired-compare-directories' for every subdirectory. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany