Re: master 739593d 3/5: Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 00:17:06 -0400
> 
> - when copying/renaming to "/foo/dir", first do it as we do now.
> - if it signals an error because "/foo/dir" already exists, check if
>   it's a directory.
> - if it's a directory, ask the user to confirm that he meant "/foo/dir/"

IMO, this would just add insult to injury.

The previous interactive behavior was consistent with 'cp' and 'mv',
so it should be left alone.  We should only fix the noninteractive
behavior, where the danger of some external agent guessing what Emacs
will do is significantly higher.