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Re: dired mode recursive delete
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: dired mode recursive delete |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:57:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 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.
What use are numerous features in external commands when there is no
interface from Emacs to them?
I can call external programs as much as I like for solving some
Emacs-internal task, but the number of options that I am not going to
use is not relevant at all.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, (continued)
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Romain Francoise, 2007/06/01
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/02
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, David Kastrup, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, martin rudalics, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, David Kastrup, 2007/06/04
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/04
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, David Kastrup, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, David Kastrup, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/06/04
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Giorgos Keramidas, 2007/06/03
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03