From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Appending lists Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:50:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1gy3f70.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <20210617074843.GD16310@tuxteam.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31637"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UJaJ2jMw/kIs8ZSjzpvQ9qm6xgI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 19 01:55:56 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1luOL5-00084R-G2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:55:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47086 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luOL4-0000Jo-AU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luOKJ-0000Gx-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1luOKH-0002xq-A6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1luOKD-000756-Tr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 01:55:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130999 Archived-At: 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". :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal