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: copy-file: ok-if-already-exists versus mustbenew Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 18:09:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4468A7A3.8060302@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147709551 27325 80.91.229.2 (15 May 2006 16:12:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 15 18:12:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ffffl-0006EK-Sk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:11:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ffffl-0002vK-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FffdF-0001sm-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:09:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FffdC-0001rb-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:09:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FffdC-0001rX-7y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:09:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Ffffd-0004S1-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 12:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 446337DE00105838 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 May 2006 18:09:12 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: Emacs Devel 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:54514 Archived-At: I am trying to enhance my reading capabilities, but I can not understand the difference between the arguments ok-if-already-exists and mustbenew in the doc for `copy-file'. Can someone please explain this to me? The only difference I see is that "never overwrite" is mentioned for "mustbenew" - though I hope this holds for the first argument too. However it sounds like the second argument should be about modification times, but the doc string does not say so.