From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:17:51 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="216858"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 25075@debbugs.gnu.org, Kaushal Modi To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 25 01:18:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYEA-000uJY-1b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:18:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYE8-0007VL-0v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDt-0007V2-EG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDq-00065W-R7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:18:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:44795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDq-00061R-4o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDp-0006A7-T5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:18:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 23:18:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25075 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 25075-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25075.156141827923678 (code B ref 25075); Mon, 24 Jun 2019 23:18:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25075) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Jun 2019 23:17:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58339 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDn-00069q-33 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:38340) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDj-00069b-Ra for 25075@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=stories) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hfYDf-0000Xb-Gm; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 01:17:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:38:55 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:161306 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > Kaushal Modi wrote: > >> +(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil >> + "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them. > > I can't imagine anyone needing this as an option they can set for all > future uses. Surely what someone might need is a way to make one > specific copy command dereference? As a prefix argument or a separate > command, or whatever. Yeah, I'm not very enthusiastic about that option, either. Sometimes I want to copy symlinks, and sometimes I want to dereference them, but setting a variable first isn't very good user experience. I do agree with Kaushal's assessment that the single-key keymap in dired is pretty crowded... but perhaps introduce a new multi-key keymap? :-/ -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no