Re: dired mode recursive delete

[Juri Linkov]

>> In case of cp and mv, currently Emacs uses their "emulations",
>> but it would be good to use external commands directly.
>
> Why would it be good?  It will certainly be slower.

Not necessarily slower: coreutils has fast implementation (maybe, even
faster that Emacs' own), and calling external process causes no big overhead.

But advantages of using external commands are numerous: they are rich of
features whose reimplementation in Emacs doesn't sound reasonable.

Please note that I don't propose replacing existing Emacs implementation
of basic copy and move operations by external commands.  I propose using
external commands only for functionality not available in Emacs, like
cross-partition move or `cp -u'.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/