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bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarch


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: bug#10489: 24.0.92; dired-do-copy may create infinite directory hierarchy
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:05:58 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> "Will know" how?  Is it documented anywhere how to write a handler so
>> it handles such situations?  If so, please point me to that
>> documentation, and perhaps I will see the light there.
>
> There is no right answer, in general, so no it's not documented.  But at
> least the file handler's writer, thanks to his knowledge of the special
> semantics of his handler, should be able to write something useful.

Existing handlers behave correctly, as far as I see. But maybe we could
add a sentence fo files.texi, node "Magic File Names", that a handler
shall be aware of this.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.





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