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From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 22322@debbugs.gnu.org, Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>
Subject: bug#22322: New Feature -- dired: Option to create a directory when copying/moving.
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:55:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfbz4va4.fsf@protesilaos.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1lr24et.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:06:50 +0100")

On 2021-02-07, 18:06 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com> writes:
>
>> As a suggestion, perhaps the Emacs team would be interested in
>> presenting the user with an option to create a new directory when
>> copying/moving in dired-mode.  This is something I use quite
>> frequently in my own setup, because it saves me an extra step by
>> obviating the need to create the directory beforehand.
>>
>> The following is a working example of the above-mentioned concept,
>> which is not intended to be a patch per se.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
> the time.)
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me.  Could you work your code into a patch?

Hi Lars!  Is this not already covered by dired-create-destination-dirs?

-- 
Protesilaos Stavrou
protesilaos.com





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-07 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-06 20:13 bug#22322: New Feature -- dired: Option to create a directory when copying/moving Keith David Bershatsky
2016-01-06 20:15 ` John Wiegley
2021-02-07 17:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-07 17:55   ` Protesilaos Stavrou [this message]
2021-02-07 17:57     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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