From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:02:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrl98adj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvipwvj2g2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:22:36 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> copy-directory already has many arguments, and adding one which will
> (almost) always need to be passed doesn't sound too attractive.
I'm not sure that's true. Suppose you want to do something like this:
Move the files /foo/file-1, /foo/file-2, etc., so they are found
in /bar: /bar/file-1, /bzr/file-2, etc.
Currently, you can do this with (copy-directory "/foo" "/bar"). Even if
/bar exists, that is OK.
If you want to use copy-directory with cp-like semantics (via a
copy-as-subdir argument, or if we give copy-directory such behavior by
default), that imposes an extra step: you have to check if /bar already
exists. If it exists, you have to do take some non-trivial steps to
either delete it or merge the contents of /foo into /bar.
In the shell, of course, you just do "cp -r /foo/* /bar". That's
because cp acts on both files and directories; copy-directory only
copies directories. This implies that giving copy-directory cp-like
semantics might be a mistake.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-09 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 15:18 bug in copy-directory Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 1:13 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-28 9:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-28 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-28 16:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 17:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-28 17:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 17:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-28 17:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 17:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 18:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 18:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 20:12 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-28 20:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 22:44 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-28 22:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-28 18:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 22:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-29 22:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 10:51 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 13:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 14:05 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 10:46 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 13:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 14:12 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 14:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 15:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 16:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 17:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 18:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 18:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 18:36 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 19:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 21:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 17:06 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-01 9:44 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-01 11:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 8:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 9:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 9:47 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-02 20:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 8:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 10:17 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-04 17:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 19:20 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-04 20:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 5:01 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-06 6:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 12:03 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-06 13:33 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-07 16:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-07 17:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 9:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 10:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 15:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 15:22 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 16:39 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 0:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 7:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-09 8:32 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 15:37 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 16:07 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 16:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-09 16:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 17:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-07 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-07 16:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-07 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-07 20:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-09 16:02 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-02-09 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 8:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 8:32 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 9:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 10:36 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 23:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 7:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 9:01 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-12 18:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 19:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 21:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 22:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-14 11:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 7:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:47 ` Michael Albinus
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