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From: anyrhine@cs.Helsinki.FI
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
Date: Tue,  4 Mar 2003 01:17:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e2a7e1e1df55da4cb5ba6806105aa65@cs.Helsinki.FI> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c952ea5ace5eb19dc04bc5363ba5952@vitanuova.com>

...
> files obscured within a union mount are not accessible to me; in fact,
> apart from telling me that the directory probably contains a union
> mount, information on those files is of no use at all.

I like having the duplicates precisely for that information.
I tend to use a quite fixed set of bindings, and most of the time it's
just a question of wheter I've made them, not what I've bound
where. 

...
> acme the same - what's the point of showing me two of the same names
> next to each other?  it just causes clutter. clicking on either
> one performs exactly the same action.

Especially in acme, because there it's (imho) easier to look for the expected
duplicates than execute something, focus on the output window for
the results, and then focus back to the original window.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-03 18:58 rog
2003-03-03 23:17 ` anyrhine [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-03 20:45 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 20:51 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 20:00 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 20:05 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 13:18 rog
2003-03-03 17:40 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-03-03 18:05   ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 18:09     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-03-03 18:16       ` Russ Cox
2003-02-28 18:52 Joel Salomon
2003-02-28 18:56 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-28 21:16   ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 22:58   ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-28 23:19     ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 23:59       ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-15 19:37 [9fans] presentation preparation Scott Schwartz
2003-02-15 19:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-27  9:35   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-28 18:44     ` [9fans] union directories Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 18:53       ` Russ Cox
2003-03-04  9:44       ` Adrian Tritschler
2001-03-23 13:30 G. David Butler
2001-03-23 13:08 rog
2001-03-26  8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-03-22  3:28 rob pike
2001-03-23 10:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-03-22  2:57 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:46 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:42 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:37 Russ Cox
2001-03-22  2:02 Russ Cox
2001-03-22  1:56 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz

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