Re: [O] Moving and resetting attachments

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> What I meant was, first ask the user for a directory, then cycle through
>> the files and ask whether to move each file to that directory. The user
>> wouldn't specify the directory itself for each file. And with
>> `map-y-or-n-p', the user can just hit "!" to take care of all files.
>>
>> Am I misunderstanding your concern? The only time the ID attachment
>> directory scheme (which is indeed opaque) would come into play is when
>> the command was called with a prefix argument -- ie, when removing a
>> custom directory, and reverting to the automatic directory. In that
>> case, the directory would be automatically derived, and the user would
>> simply be presented with the choice to move each file there, or not.
>
> When asking for each file if it should be moved or not, you can end up
> with files in both the old and the new directory. My concern is that,
> when the old directory is a default ID directory, there is no simple way
> to get the files back. So, I think we should automatically move files in
> this case.
>
> I also agree with your special case described above.

Okay, makes sense. I hope we haven't totally scared off Florian...

Florian, are you interested in doing another version of the patch?

Eric