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Re: dired mode recursive delete
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David Kastrup |
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Re: dired mode recursive delete |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:21:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 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.
>
> Designing a good interface for using them is a good goal. For example,
> I imagine that just like some dired commands, when invoked with the prefix
> key, ask for the command switches (`C-u =' asks for diff switches and `C-u s'
> asks for ls switches), in the same way `C-u C' and `C-u R' could ask
> for cp and mv switches and call these commands.
But Emacs can't use external commands for moving and copying non-local
files, anyway, so there is no point in asking for command line options
which Emacs itself does not understand when Emacs will likely not be
able to use a command line.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: dired mode recursive delete, (continued)
- 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, 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, 2007/06/04
- 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
Re: dired mode recursive delete, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/01
Re: dired mode recursive delete, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/03