bug#25075: 26.0.50; [PATCH] Dired can now dereference symlinks when copying

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Kaushal Modi wrote:
>
>> +(defcustom dired-copy-dereference nil
>> +  "If non-nil, Dired dereferences symlinks when copying them.
>
> I can't imagine anyone needing this as an option they can set for all
> future uses. Surely what someone might need is a way to make one
> specific copy command dereference? As a prefix argument or a separate
> command, or whatever.

Yeah, I'm not very enthusiastic about that option, either.  Sometimes I
want to copy symlinks, and sometimes I want to dereference them, but
setting a variable first isn't very good user experience.

I do agree with Kaushal's assessment that the single-key keymap in dired
is pretty crowded...  but perhaps introduce a new multi-key keymap?  :-/

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