From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:39:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83k2bkpbb7.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480563618 7543 195.159.176.226 (1 Dec 2016 03:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 03:40:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 01 04:40:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1cCIEF-0000mx-No for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 04:40:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIEJ-0002C9-EI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51669) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIEB-00029d-Ei for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIE6-0003Ie-Aq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60812) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIE6-0003Ia-8E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIE6-0004u7-1s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:40:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:40:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25075 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 25075-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25075.148056358818826 (code B ref 25075); Thu, 01 Dec 2016 03:40:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25075) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Dec 2016 03:39:48 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47978 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIDs-0004ta-IR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60575) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIDq-0004tN-9n for 25075@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIDg-0003Cj-80 for 25075@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIDg-0003CZ-53; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3133 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cCIDd-0006Pq-Fg; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:39:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126345 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500 > Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org > > Kaushal Modi wrote: > > > +(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil > > + "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them. > > I can't imagine anyone needing this as an option they can set for all > future uses. Surely what someone might need is a way to make one > specific copy command dereference? As a prefix argument or a separate > command, or whatever. That was my first thought as well, but we use the same approach as Kaushal proposed for the equivalent of the -p switch to 'cp'.