From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:37:21 -0500 Message-ID: <877hd99q32.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <87lj23ickn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjway8i3.fsf@gmx.de> <87wrll2ebe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87hbcot7gq.fsf@gmx.de> <87ei7qrdp0.fsf@gmail.com> <87ipx2dayh.fsf@gmx.de> <87y65yyxfu.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3n8xkeq.fsf@gmail.com> <878vxw6r4m.fsf@gmx.de> <87pqr790b0.fsf@gmail.com> <87oc6r7gjc.fsf@gmx.de> <87ipwz8t92.fsf@gmail.com> <878vxt69k7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <874o8hbc9q.fsf@gmx.de> <87tygh8ez6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkq7okvk.fsf@gmx.de> <87oc6myqzn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87sjvxznmt.fsf@gmail.com> <87aai58v63.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297265952 23050 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2011 15:39:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 16:39:08 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 1PnC8J-00018X-Mv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:39:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnC8J-0006E2-6B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:39:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50127 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnC6i-0004wY-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:37:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnC6g-0001Rh-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:37:28 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]:52065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnC6g-0001RO-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036226124.central.yale.edu [128.36.226.124]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p19FbMGV015287 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:37:22 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EDC4B1605C6; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:37:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87aai58v63.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:32:52 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.146 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:135797 Archived-At: Michael Albinus writes: > If this is not possible, we shall fall back to the Emacs 23.2 > implementation, which is less broken compared with the current status. Explain again why the current status is more broken than Emacs 23.2. As far as I can tell, if the copy-as-subdir arg is nil, the Lisp behavior is identical to 23.2. > I would vote for continuing with the last patch from Thierry, not > committed yet. Maybe it is possible to throw copy-directory-1 away, > and to adapt the call of copy-directory in Dired instead of. Adding a separate copy-directory-1 function does nothing different from adding an optional argument to copy-directory that modifies its behavior. Not much point.