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Subject: Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the
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> From: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:50:50 +0330
> Cc: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > how do I rename old_name into new_name so that it overwrites new_name
> 
> Overwriting a directory is a highly destructive activity.

True, but it isn't invalid or nonsensical.  And it was possible before
the change, right?

> But we can add a new custom variable. I am all for giving everyone options. I don't think it can integrate with
> `dired-create-destination-dirs' though; `dired-create-destination-dirs-trailing-slash-special'?

I leave this to you guys.