From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:48:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <87k4hp96g0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vy59ejz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lj25ar3v.fsf@gmail.com> <87hbcsc2zv.fsf@gmail.com> <4D432315.9010102@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296247736 4596 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 20:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus , Stefan Monnier , Thierry Volpiatto To: =?UTF-8?Q?Jan_Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 21:48:51 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PivFN-0005aH-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:48:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PivFN-0000Dq-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51734 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PivFI-0000Bj-PE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PivFH-0001Ja-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:37307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PivFH-0001JU-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so1781698eyh.0 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:48:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kZjzNGXzgMa1txVdRLcvb9OO4MuatNbZxWyMC6qU2FI=; b=Y2gkgvburlXA59bIuCGgxXUTDFqPGdCJRO51pePHFsC/hjpIOd3K8Bw4dxp7OY91Bh N7ytS33Sd86HV+4IYM80pQEjYS0fIoA5qeyoR08/lnbaAp0i1I5D0pjhdOpeqzHABB1f ZJ2Ifg8zH33V/FzhNtf8YqfoT/EUX+dZOb2CI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HhF5EOk8D1G86Cifv9Mw5DXkF0zghZKU4woCArWXgq8aQGIhsO9+ZT+qmIsb1A5E/Q 2JO3MmnROxXGu5Kux5SWnR2nmCSc1duXOM+9iMJEN00bOLDUsBolJ8aRptwehC3kdW68 8GLi7o4e/5XS0ri/rs3j+fvbyxWFogooS39bY= Original-Received: by 10.213.32.143 with SMTP id c15mr5481554ebd.67.1296247718132; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:48:38 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.36.11 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:48:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D432315.9010102@swipnet.se> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 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:135183 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Jan Dj=C3=A4rv wrote: > > > Lennart Borgman skrev 2011-01-28 19.28: > >> But there are other semantics in use for this problem. If you look at >> the semantics used by w32 "GUI shell" (Explorer) it handles the >> situation that x2 exist by creating a new directory with a new name. >> (Emacs uses that kind of semantic for other things.) >> > > Actually it does different things if you use C-c C-v or drag and drop. > For drag and drop it does not make a new directory. > >> I would guess that such "GUI shells" on *nix have similar semantic. Or >> what do they do? > > Nautilus, the Gnome "GUI shell" behaves the same as the W32 one. > > That said, it would be a huge surprise to many if copy-directory didn't > behave as cp. Probably. But it is also a hug surprise to many that it does not behave as most "GUI shell". I think the latter group is growing. The first group might not be growing.