From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [External] : Re: Dired C idea Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:08:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zgu3p2gc.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12553"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 03:08:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mAMRp-00039A-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:08:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAMRo-0000Zv-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44846) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAMRI-0008IJ-HH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAMRI-0001dz-2m; Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAMR9-0004At-C8; Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:08:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 31 Jul 2021 20:56:41 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:271929 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > But perhaps I don't understand the suggestion well. > If this behavior is added, is there really no longer > any use for the current `C' behavior? I see no reason to prefer ordinary copying to rsync. If you see a reason, could you tell us what it is? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)