all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* copy-files, overwriting files, and random ideas
@ 2022-08-23 19:55 Alfred M. Szmidt
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Alfred M. Szmidt @ 2022-08-23 19:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

It would be really nice if when copying a file, and the destination
exists, that you could somehow get Emacs to copy the new file beside
the old one, and/or copy away the old one as a backup, and then
replace it.

It's specially useful if you copy multiple files in dired, since the
only option is to abort the whole thing.


Being able to diff the files would also be really really nice; if
text-files do something with diff-mode and if else, just a CRC, and
output from stat or similar.



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] only message in thread

only message in thread, other threads:[~2022-08-23 19:55 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2022-08-23 19:55 copy-files, overwriting files, and random ideas Alfred M. Szmidt

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.