Re: dired mode recursive delete

[David Kastrup]

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