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bug#18009: 24.4.50; Add hooks for `rename-file' and `delete-file'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#18009: 24.4.50; Add hooks for `rename-file' and `delete-file' |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Feb 2022 14:07:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Please add a hook for each of these basic operations. It is not unusual
>> to want to be able to carry out some action associated with
>> (successfully) renaming or deleting a file. The hooks would be run at
>> the end of the operation, and only upon success.
>
> It's not unreasonable, but these are rather low-level operations, I'm
> not sure I want to run hooks from them.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)
I think the conclusion here is that we don't want to add any hooks to
these functions, and the user can use file name handlers and/or advice
to alter the behaviour if they want to.
So I'm closing this bug report.
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- bug#18009: 24.4.50; Add hooks for `rename-file' and `delete-file',
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