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From: John Paul Wallington <jpw@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired not bold enough to move directories
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:49:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fzr1tcjf.fsf@china.shootybangbang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87isvxqnae.fsf@jidanni.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "07 Feb 2003 02:25:29 +0800")

Dan Jacobson wrote:

>  Well, gosh, if I can move a directory like this,
>    $ cd /var/tmp
>    $ mv affordablehost_logs ~/tmp
>  
>  then why can't I remame it with R in dired?

Because they are on separate partitions.
dired should behave like mv in such a case.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-06 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-06 18:25 dired not bold enough to move directories Dan Jacobson
2003-02-06 19:49 ` John Paul Wallington [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-08  1:37 Luc Teirlinck
2003-02-08  2:24 ` John Paul Wallington

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