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From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: Stephen.Berman@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired mode recursive delete
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:22:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl97ifds.fsf@debby.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d50csrt4.fsf@jurta.org> (Juri Linkov's message of "Sun\, 03 Jun 2007 23\:31\:51 +0300")

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

>> No, since that does not work with external files accessed with
>> ange-ftp or tramp.
>
> We are talking about cross-partition operations, not cross-machine, right?
> Ange-ftp and tramp use quite different facilities for copying and moving
> files between machines.

Right, cp -u is only working locally but I also had ssh and ftp
connections in mind.  It would be fantastic when dired had such a
transparent handling of files and directories.

I also forgot to mention that the problem of updating subdirectories
can be somewhat mitigated when one includes the subdirectories with
the i switch into the respective dired buffers, but it's still a pain
in the ...

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-04 21:22 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
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 [this message]
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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