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Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the tar
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target |
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Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:10:02 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.7.0; emacs 28.0.50 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> With Rudi's patch, it's exactly the same when the destination is
>> foo/bar. But if you specify foo/bar/ as destination, dired will create
>> foo/bar/ (maybe after asking as controlled by
>> `dired-create-destination-dirs') and you get foo/bar/file.txt.
>
> That does seem quite intuitive and attractive (and is somewhat
> analogous to what Emacs does with `C-x C-w' today).
Right.
> OK, you've convinced me. Adding a user option like
> `dired-create-destination-dirs' (as Eli said) is probably the best,
> though.
`dired-create-destination-dirs' already exists. But in Rudi's most
recent patch version, he added a new one.
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
+(defcustom dired-create-destination-dirs-trailing-separator-special nil
+ "If t, when selecting a single destination in Dired, paths that end in a
path separator will be treated as a non-existent directory, and acted on
according to `dired-create-destination-dirs'.
+
+This option is only relevant if `dired-create-destination-dirs' is not `nil',
and you are moving/copying a single directory.
+
+For example, when renaming a directory named `old_name' to `new_name/' (note
the trailing path separator), `new_name' might be created depending on
`dired-create-destination-dirs' and `old_name' will be moved into it if it is
created; Otherwise `old_name' will be directly renamed to `new_name'."
+ :type '(choice (const :tag "Do not treat paths with a trailing path
separator specially" nil)
+ (const :tag "Treat paths with a trailing path separator
specially" t))
+ :group 'dired
+ :version "28.1")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I still think that this is not really necessary but won't object.
Rudi proposed that the default value should probably be `t' given that
this feels so intuitive and the only gotcha is renaming/moving or
copying a directory source/ to a non-existent target or target/ where
the former has rename/make a copy semantics and the latter has move/copy
*into* the to be created target/ directory.
Bye,
Tassilo
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, (continued)
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Tassilo Horn, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Tassilo Horn, 2021/09/29
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Tassilo Horn, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Tassilo Horn, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Rudi C, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/30
- RE: [External] : Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Drew Adams, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Stefan Kangas, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/30
- Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/09/29
- RE: [External] : Re: PR: dired-do-create-files now checks for trailing slashes in the target, Drew Adams, 2021/09/29