From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com,
rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:47:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmsqez1d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7e2vvrp.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:48:13 +0200)
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:48:13 +0200
>
> > I'm quite sure you didn't consider all the use cases. E.g., what
> > about foo -> Foo on case-insensitive filesystems? That is a valid use
> > case where the user wants a directory renamed with a different
> > letter-case.
>
> You mean, you'd TAB-complete to the same name foo/ and then capitalize
> the already completed input so that you then have Foo/ with the slash?
> I can see that one might do that if the name is quite long. And that
> use-case would also apply to case-sensitive filesystems.
On case-sensitive filesystems, the new directory would not exist.
> So fine, let's have if off by default.
Thanks.
> BTW, do we need a copyright assignment for this patch? The actual
> change is about 5 lines (including reformatting) but the new defcustom
> is about a dozen of lines with docstring, and stuff.
No, we can accept it without an assignment, but that about exhausts
our ability to accept more contributions from Rudi, so I recommend
starting the paperwork now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-30 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-28 17:50 PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target Rudi C
2021-09-28 18:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 18:42 ` Rudi C
2021-09-28 19:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 19:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-28 20:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28 20:23 ` Rudi C
2021-09-28 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 19:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-28 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 4:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 13:20 ` Rudi C
2021-09-29 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 13:37 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 13:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 13:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 14:31 ` Rudi C
2021-09-29 13:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 13:42 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 14:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 15:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-29 15:17 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-30 6:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-30 7:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-30 8:32 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-30 13:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-30 14:10 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-30 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-30 16:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-30 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-30 18:52 ` Rudi C
2021-09-30 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-01 15:37 ` Rudi C
2021-11-02 14:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-02 15:08 ` Rudi C
2021-11-02 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 12:52 ` Rudi C
2021-11-09 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-05 12:12 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-05 13:26 ` Rudi C
2021-12-05 17:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-12-06 4:34 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-05 20:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-06 6:01 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-30 15:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-30 13:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-30 13:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-29 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-29 17:01 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-29 19:09 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-09-29 19:35 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-29 13:57 ` Stefan Kangas
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