From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: "tramp-devel@gnu.org" <tramp-devel@gnu.org>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Tramp and recursive file operations
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvdj04kgp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqmy4cc0wh.fsf@alcatel-lucent.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:06:06 +0200")
>> It seems OK, but I'd rather see them renamed to copy-file-recursive and
>> delete-file-recursive at the same time and made independent from dired.
> OK. Looking outside dired, there is already delete-directory, good for
> empty directories. Maybe we add an optional parameter RECURSIVE?
Sounds OK, except for the fact that delete-directory is implemented in
C, so you'd have to code the recursion in C as well.
> A copy-directory function does not exist. What about allowing the first
> parameter of copy-file to be a directory name? This would imply to copy
> recursively.
If we were starting over from scratch, that would be fine, but I'm
afraid that some code somewhere relies on the fact that copy-file only
copies files and not directories. And of course, copy-file is also
implemented in C, so you'd have to code the recursion in C as well.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-29 14:39 Tramp and recursive file operations Michael Albinus
2009-09-29 17:49 ` joakim
2009-09-29 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-30 8:06 ` Michael Albinus
2009-09-30 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-09-30 14:07 ` Michael Albinus
2009-09-30 19:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-01 15:53 ` Michael Albinus
2009-09-30 15:52 ` yary
2009-10-02 5:10 ` Michael Albinus
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