Re: Dired C idea

[Michael Albinus]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Richard,

> What would people think about making the C command in Dired
> run rsync to do the copying of a directory>
>
> The idea is that interrupting the copying would let you
> restart it without starting from zero.

Internally, `copy-directory' is called, which is aware of file name
handlers. Using rsync instead of copy shouldn't break this mechanism.

If a remote directory is involved, either source or target, it is
already possible to use Tramp's `rsync' method.

Best regards, Michael.