Re: bug in copy-directory

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Lennart Borgman skrev 2011-01-28 21.48:
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>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Jan Djärv<address@hidden>  wrote:
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>>> That said, it would be a huge surprise to many if copy-directory didn't
>>> behave as cp.
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>> Probably. But it is also a hug surprise to many that it does not
>> behave as most "GUI shell".
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>> I think the latter group is growing. The first group might not be growing.
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> Perhaps, but users of GUI shells tend to use them for copying files, not
> Emacs.

Yes, maybe. I tend to use GUI shells for copying directory trees for
nearly exactly the problems we have been discussing here. (Lack of
threading is another problem.)