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 16:57:16 +0300 Message-ID: <837deziiwz.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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13559"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 29 15:59:30 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 1mVa7O-0003H9-8y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:59:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42580 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVa7N-0000Fc-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVa5A-00047p-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57618) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mVa59-0006p3-Pk; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4496 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 1mVa58-0000Q9-9R; Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:57:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r1d73312.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:42:50 +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:275798 Archived-At: > From: Tassilo Horn > Cc: rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:42:50 +0200 > > So basically we have those Rename/Copy semantics: > > file -> 2.txt (renames plain file no matter if 2.txt already exists) > file -> foo (move into foo if that's an existing dir, otherwise rename) > file -> foo/ (move into directory foo, creating if not existing > and dired-create-destination-dirs is non-nil) > > The first 2 are unchanged, the third one is the new one. 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. So if you want me to agree to the change, please make this behavior optional.