From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
stefankangas@gmail.com, tsdh@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:44:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ka3idyg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ee97bgxt.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:21:50 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>, rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com,
> stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:21:50 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 15:44 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
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 [this message]
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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