Re: bug in copy-directory

[Jan Djärv]

Lennart Borgman skrev 2011-01-28 19.28:

> But there are other semantics in use for this problem. If you look at
> the semantics used by w32 "GUI shell" (Explorer) it handles the
> situation that x2 exist by creating a new directory with a new name.
> (Emacs uses that kind of semantic for other things.)

Actually it does different things if you use C-c C-v or drag and drop.
For drag and drop it does not make a new directory.

> I would guess that such "GUI shells" on *nix have similar semantic. Or
> what do they do?

Nautilus, the Gnome "GUI shell" behaves the same as the W32 one.

That said, it would be a huge surprise to many if copy-directory didn't behave 
as cp.

        Jan D.