From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de, Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:43:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myzg28ph.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4662BD9F.3030503@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Sun\, 03 Jun 2007 15\:09\:51 +0200")
>> 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?
Like that, yes, but the other way around :)
>From the beginning Emacs uses external commands, and later ls-lisp.el
and find-lisp.el were added for the systems without necessary external
commands. In case of cp and mv, currently Emacs uses their "emulations",
but it would be good to use external commands directly.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-03 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-30 17:36 dired mode recursive delete Neal Becker
2007-05-30 17:59 ` Stephen Berman
2007-05-30 18:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-31 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-01 5:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-01 5:33 ` Romain Francoise
2007-06-01 5:35 ` Romain Francoise
2007-06-02 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 5:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-03 9:29 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 10:34 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-03 12:09 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 13:09 ` martin rudalics
2007-06-03 18:43 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-06-03 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-03 21:28 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-03 22:59 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-04 5:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-04 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-03 20:00 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-03 20:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-03 20:31 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-04 21:22 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-03 19:55 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-06-03 20:14 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-01 17:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-03 18:42 ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-02 16:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-06-02 19:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-13 7:53 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-06-13 8:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-13 8:17 ` Stephen Leake
2007-06-13 8:26 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-03 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-13 8:11 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-05-31 22:31 ` Richard Stallman
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