Re: [External] : Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>>   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.
>
> What about:  foo -> foo/
>
> Does that move file foo to directory foo, as
> foo/foo, creating directory foo if it doesn't
> exist?

No, it errors in the same way as it does without the patch.

  Move: ‘/home/horn/tmp/foo’ to ‘/home/horn/tmp/foo/foo’ failed:
  (file-error Renaming Invalid argument /home/horn/tmp/foo /home/horn/tmp/foo/foo)

Bye,
Tassilo