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bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copy
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:38:55 +0200 |
> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:04:17 +0000
>
> Can you review and comment on the below patch. I came up with a necessity
> to copy symlinks from one dired buffer to another dired buffer as a
> dereferenced copy of that symlink.
>
> In terminal, I would use the -L option of the cp command to do the same.
>
> The current default behavior is unchanged as the new defcustom
> dired-copy-dereference is set to nil.
Shouldn't the doc string of dired-do-copy be updated with a reference
to the new variable?
Likewise the Emacs User manual should be updated.
Thanks.