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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Appending lists
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:50:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1gy3f70.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20210617074843.GD16310@tuxteam.de

tomas wrote:

> All this shows that "shallow" and "deep" are relative.

Then these terms should be dropped, perhaps.

Or one has to do it case-by-case anyway since one cannot be
sure they mean the same thing from one case to another.

For example, recursive copy with cp(1) works in such a way
that it will, and I quote, "copy directories recursively".

:)

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17  3:18 Appending lists Drew Adams
2021-06-17  7:48 ` tomas
2021-06-18 23:38   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-18 23:50   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-06-19  6:57     ` tomas
2021-06-19 21:31       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-19 22:07         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-06-20 19:50           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 19:58             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:10               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 20:27                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 19:59             ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 20:22               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:42               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 20:49                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 21:49                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 22:54                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:30                       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-21  0:29                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 21:46                 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-20 22:09             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:04               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-20 23:10                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2021-06-14 16:44 Pierpaolo Bernardi
2021-06-15  0:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-15  1:47   ` henri-biard
2021-06-15  7:09     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-14 16:36 Pierpaolo Bernardi
2021-06-14 16:40 ` henri-biard
2021-06-14 18:21   ` Alexandr Vityazev
2021-06-15  0:46     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-15  8:27       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-15  9:18         ` tomas
2021-06-16  1:11           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16  7:28             ` tomas
2021-06-16  9:13               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16  9:32                 ` tomas
2021-06-16 10:55                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 16:44                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16  9:19               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16  9:35                 ` tomas
2021-06-16 10:57                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 16:55                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 11:16                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-06-16 11:30                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 11:54                     ` tomas
2021-06-16 17:31                       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 23:13                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 23:41                           ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 13:01                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-16 16:59                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 17:36                       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 18:54                         ` tomas
2021-06-16 21:24                           ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-06-16 23:25                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-17  7:16                               ` tomas
2021-06-17  7:14                             ` tomas
2021-06-16 23:24                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 23:19                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 16:54                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 18:49                   ` tomas
2021-06-16 21:40                     ` Jean Louis
2021-06-16 22:35                       ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 23:02                         ` Jean Louis
2021-06-17  0:00                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 23:44                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-17  7:20                           ` tomas
2021-06-16 23:39                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 23:31                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 14:22               ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 15:11                 ` tomas
2021-06-16 15:31                   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 15:48                     ` tomas
2021-06-16 23:04                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-17  7:50                       ` tomas
2021-06-18 23:47                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-19  2:35                           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-19  6:52                             ` tomas
2021-06-16 23:03                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-16 16:42               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-14 16:24 Pierpaolo Bernardi
2021-06-14 16:32 ` henri-biard
2021-06-14 16:08 henri-biard

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