New(-ish) Package: dired-copy-paste

Following up on my last post about dired-registers, here is a package I recently took over maintenance of. I fixed a bug that was preventing copy and pasting of entire directories recursively. That said, main development was from Hidaka Uchida a number of years back. [https://github.com/jsilve24/dired-copy-paste](https://github.com/jsilve24/dired-copy-paste) ​ This is just a really minimalistic (same theme as dired-registers) implementation of a copy-paste interface like Ranger or Ranger.el (just much more minimal). ​ See Readme on github for more details. ​ If people find this useful I will post to melpa.

The README doesn't seem to say what it does - just what you mean by cutting, copying, and pasting files and dirs. ---- FWIW: * Dired lets you copy file and directory *names* (with `w`). * [Dired+](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DiredPlus) has this command to paste (add) files whose names you've copied into a Dired buffer, which is bound to `C-y` in Dired - dunno whether it does something similar to what your library offers: > `diredp-yank-files` is an interactive compiled Lisp function in [`dired+.el`](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el). > > `(diredp-yank-files &optional DIR NO-CONFIRM-P DETAILS)` > > Yank (paste) files to the current directory. > > With a non-negative prefix arg you are instead prompted for the target directory. > > With a non-positive prefix arg you can see details about the files if you hit `l` when prompted to confirm pasting. Otherwise you see only the file names. The details you see are defined by option `diredp-list-file-attributes`. > > The absolute names of the files to be yanked are taken from the clipboard or, if that's empty, from names you've copied to the kill ring using `w` (`dired-copy-filename-as-kill`), `M-0 w` (`diredp-copy-abs-filenames-as-kill`), or `M-+ M-w` (`diredp-copy-filename-as-kill-recursive`). > > Those copy-filename commands also: > * Use the value of option `diredp-filename-separator` to separate the copied file names. > * Set variable `diredp-last-copied-filenames` to the same string. `diredp-yank-files` uses the value of that variable, not whatever is currently at the head of the kill ring. The commands for copying are listed there: `w` (`dired-copy-filename-as-kill`), `M-0 w` (`diredp-copy-abs-filenames-as-kill`), and `M-+ M-w` (`diredp-copy-filename-as-kill-recursive`).

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> I fixed a bug that was preventing copy and pasting of entire directories recursively. Ha, I have been using this for years, never noticed the bug :-).

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