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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 11:17:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkU0vjeD-L4FNTAAJrT3hpQZwY7UG8ugEk5GL+FVgpTdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9z9A0iwx7wQhGQZTkX8o7pZExEmx1FUSMVXByUF63KWDABtw@mail.gmail.com>

Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com> writes:

> With this patch, we can move directories into new directories if we
> explicitly end the new name with a trailing slash.
>
> So `/new_name` renames `/old_name` to `/new_name`, while `/new_name/`
> renames `/old_name` to `/new_name/old_name`.

Isn't that backwards-incompatible?

> Without this feature, one has to first create the new directory and then
> move the old directory into it, which is so unpleasant I currently just
> copy the path and use my shell's move functions.

IIRC, if you use e.g. `ido', you can create a directory from the prompt
with M-m.  I'm not sure about the default completion, but there are
similar features in other completion frameworks.  Isn't that a better
way to go about this?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 18:17 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 [this message]
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
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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