From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:54:17 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87lkez9sje.fsf@jurta.org> 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> <4662BD9F.3030503@gmx.at> <87myzg28ph.fsf@jurta.org> <87tztolnl4.fsf@jurta.org> <863b1866rh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <87r6os8w31.fsf@jurta.org> <86y7j047nc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181002409 30854 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2007 00:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 02:13:27 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 1HvMft-0005vD-VW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:13:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMft-0007Iz-Dq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:13:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfC-0006Rh-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMfA-0006Qf-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HvMf9-0006QW-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvMf8-0002ps-BK; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HvMf4-000HBY-Mb; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:12:35 +0300 In-Reply-To: <86y7j047nc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 04 Jun 2007 07\:21\:11 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 7b6940144bc5d56bdacd12344196c2df X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1116 [June 04 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 0 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:72244 Archived-At: >> Designing a good interface for using them is a good goal. For example, >> I imagine that just like some dired commands, when invoked with the prefix >> key, ask for the command switches (`C-u =' asks for diff switches and `C-u s' >> asks for ls switches), in the same way `C-u C' and `C-u R' could ask >> for cp and mv switches and call these commands. > > But Emacs can't use external commands for moving and copying non-local > files, anyway, so there is no point in asking for command line options > which Emacs itself does not understand when Emacs will likely not be > able to use a command line. It could ask for options specific to the program used to transfer files between hosts, like `rsync' which supports a lot of useful options. Or not ask for options at all when they make no sense for non-local transfer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/