From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?SmFuIERqw6Rydg==?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:12:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4D432315.9010102@swipnet.se> References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <87k4hp96g0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878vy59ejz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87lj25ar3v.fsf@gmail.com> <87hbcsc2zv.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296245549 25886 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 20:12:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus , Stefan Monnier , Thierry Volpiatto To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 28 21:12:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Piug9-0001h2-AD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:12:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Piug8-0007vD-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58875 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Piug0-0007uK-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:12:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piufy-00028l-TK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:12:11 -0500 Original-Received: from smtprelay-b12.telenor.se ([62.127.194.21]:36086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Piufy-00028G-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:12:10 -0500 Original-Received: from ipb2.telenor.se (ipb2.telenor.se [195.54.127.165]) by smtprelay-b12.telenor.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22BCEA331 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:12:06 +0100 (CET) X-SENDER-IP: [85.225.45.100] X-LISTENER: [smtp.bredband.net] X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnQ5AK2xQk1V4S1kPGdsb2JhbACEFIRJnCUMAQEBATUvqgCQcIEjgzh0BI9r X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,394,1291590000"; d="scan'208";a="168474481" Original-Received: from c-642de155.25-1-64736c10.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) ([85.225.45.100]) by ipb2.telenor.se with ESMTP; 28 Jan 2011 21:12:06 +0100 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BC9C57FA05A; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:12:05 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 62.127.194.21 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:135181 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman skrev 2011-01-28 19.28: > But there are other semantics in use for this problem. If you look at > the semantics used by w32 "GUI shell" (Explorer) it handles the > situation that x2 exist by creating a new directory with a new name. > (Emacs uses that kind of semantic for other things.) > Actually it does different things if you use C-c C-v or drag and drop. For drag and drop it does not make a new directory. > I would guess that such "GUI shells" on *nix have similar semantic. Or > what do they do? Nautilus, the Gnome "GUI shell" behaves the same as the W32 one. That said, it would be a huge surprise to many if copy-directory didn't behave as cp. Jan D.