From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:48:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=rT3Op=DG8MLtDObQ8UNX3nfcp2YUfXc93L=8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D432315.9010102@swipnet.se>
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Probably. But it is also a hug surprise to many that it does not
behave as most "GUI shell".
I think the latter group is growing. The first group might not be growing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-28 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-27 15:18 bug in copy-directory Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 1:13 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-28 9:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-28 16:30 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-28 16:51 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 17:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-28 17:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 17:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-28 17:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 17:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 18:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 18:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 20:12 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-28 20:48 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2011-01-28 22:44 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-28 22:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-28 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-28 18:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-28 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-29 22:12 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-29 22:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 10:51 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 13:54 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 14:05 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 10:46 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 13:51 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 14:12 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 14:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 15:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 16:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 17:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 18:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 18:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 18:36 ` Michael Albinus
2011-01-30 19:07 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-30 21:18 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-01-31 17:06 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-01 9:44 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-01 11:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 8:19 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 9:24 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-02 9:47 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-02 20:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 8:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 10:17 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-04 17:28 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-04 19:20 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-04 20:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 5:01 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-06 6:23 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 12:03 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-06 13:33 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-07 16:43 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-07 17:32 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 9:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 10:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 15:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 15:22 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-08 16:39 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 0:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 7:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-09 8:32 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 15:37 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 16:07 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-09 16:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-09 16:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 17:37 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:46 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-07 15:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-07 16:02 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-07 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-07 20:00 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-08 3:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-09 16:02 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-09 21:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 8:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 8:32 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 9:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 10:36 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-11 23:58 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 7:06 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 9:01 ` Michael Albinus
2011-02-12 18:42 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 19:41 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-12 21:55 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 22:46 ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-14 11:40 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-12 7:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-06 17:47 ` Michael Albinus
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