From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:44:23 +0300 Message-ID: <834ka3idyg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831r58k0cx.fsf@gnu.org> <87tui4qyni.fsf@gnu.org> <83tui4iift.fsf@gnu.org> <874ka43rp1.fsf@gnu.org> <83ee97il43.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgrv33mf.fsf@gnu.org> <838rzfijnj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r1d73312.fsf@gnu.org> <837deziiwz.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee97bgxt.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38827"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, tsdh@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 29 17:44:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mVblH-0009v6-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:44:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55754 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVblF-00006o-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVbkl-0007qT-Hn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVbkl-0007xX-9Z; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3094 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVbkk-0002Pk-QF; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:44:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ee97bgxt.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:21:50 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275809 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Tassilo Horn , rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, > stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:21:50 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I'm against unconditionally changing the behavior based on the obscure > > fact of whether the directory name ends in a slash or doesn't. That > > slash is ephemeral and users may not be aware to its importance, since > > the semantics of foo/ and foo is the same more or less. > > Yes, we're extremely sloppy (in a good way) when handling foo/ and foo, > so it might be surprising behaviour to make this one command assign > different semantics to the two forms. > > But it's nice functionality. Is there some other way we could get this > without relying on the difference between foo and foo/? A separate > command, perhaps? Or some extra prompting? I suggested a new defcustom to turn this on. A separate command would also be okay. Extra prompting is less nice, because it will also affect those who don't want the new behavior.