From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:42:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ipxaidea.fsf@gmail.com> <878vy59ejz.fsf@stupidchicken.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> <87y65txele.fsf@gmail.com> <87tyghxdgx.fsf@gmail.com> <87wrl98adj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297358266 4047 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2011 17:17:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Thierry Volpiatto To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 18:17:39 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 1Pna9C-0005Ub-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:17:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pna9B-0002Mr-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60735 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnHnk-0001a7-Un for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnHni-0000xZ-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:42:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:8777 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnHni-0000xO-K6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:42:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAH6ZUk1FxIyy/2dsb2JhbAClWXS7aIVcBIR/jyk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,447,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="91071740" Original-Received: from 69-196-140-178.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.140.178]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Feb 2011 16:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 9BB18660C9; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 16:42:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87wrl98adj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:02:00 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 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:135846 Archived-At: > In the shell, of course, you just do "cp -r /foo/* /bar". That's > because cp acts on both files and directories; copy-directory only > copies directories. This implies that giving copy-directory cp-like > semantics might be a mistake. OK. Stefan