From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 18:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525905834 12183 195.159.176.226 (9 May 2018 22:43:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 22:43:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 10 00:43:50 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXoM-00033a-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2018 00:43:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXqT-0004Wx-Dz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 18:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXpg-0004Ws-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 18:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXpd-0008Qq-Pe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 18:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33881 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXpd-0008P2-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 18:45:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fGXnR-00022Z-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 May 2018 00:42:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:j7OMAfAeg19Zj9iDZMzD988wRWg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225179 Archived-At: > It seems like you are proposing a way to copy a file and then delete > the original. This is not the same as *moving* it. Emacs's handling of files tends to be fairly vague about how it handles file identity, so I think the fine distinction between "cp+rm" and "mv" in this case can be ignored. Stefan