Re: Dired C idea

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 13:35:39 +1000
>> 
>> Is rsync available on all supported platforms?
>
> We can test that before invoking the command.  We do that in many
> other cases.  So this issue is not serious.

It is already possible to run rsync form emacs, by simply calling it
from lisp code. I do it all the time :)

Why do you need it in hardcoded in C code? What extra does it offer?

There are like different versions of ellisp already, most of them spun
from this blog post:

https://truongtx.me/tmtxt-dired-async.html

https://github.com/stsquad/dired-rsync
https://oremacs.com/2016/02/24/dired-rsync/
https://gist.github.com/l3msh0/5006645