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: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:47:10 +0300 Message-ID: <83pmsqez1d.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> <87fstn2ydc.fsf@gnu.org> <87bl4a7g2m.fsf@gnus.org> <87sfxmqwdr.fsf@gnu.org> <87bl4a2nng.fsf@gnus.org> <87lf3ew3k5.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnmyf3u3.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7e2vvrp.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 19:51:19 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 1mW0DG-00009o-DS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:51:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50922 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW0DF-0000YA-HK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW09O-0005i1-CL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mW09M-0007sD-6i; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4047 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 1mW09K-0004DH-Gd; Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:47:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7e2vvrp.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Tassilo Horn on Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:48:13 +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:275920 Archived-At: > From: Tassilo Horn > 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.