Re: bug in copy-directory

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Lennart Borgman skrev 2011-01-28 19.28:
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>> But there are other semantics in use for this problem. If you look at
>> the semantics used by w32 "GUI shell" (Explorer) it handles the
>> situation that x2 exist by creating a new directory with a new name.
>> (Emacs uses that kind of semantic for other things.)
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> Actually it does different things if you use C-c C-v or drag and drop.
> For drag and drop it does not make a new directory.
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>> I would guess that such "GUI shells" on *nix have similar semantic. Or
>> what do they do?
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> Nautilus, the Gnome "GUI shell" behaves the same as the W32 one.
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> That said, it would be a huge surprise to many if copy-directory didn't
> behave as cp.

Probably. But it is also a hug surprise to many that it does not
behave as most "GUI shell".

I think the latter group is growing. The first group might not be growing.