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

[Stefan Kangas]

Rudi C <rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com> writes:

>> Isn't that backwards-incompatible?
>
> This is an interactive function, I think, so backward compatibility is a
> loose concept here. I can add a configuration variable if you think this
> matters.

I don't have an opinion on that yet.

>> similar features in other completion frameworks
> I don't know if `ivy` has this, but anyway, I try to keep this kind of
> hotkeys to a minimum; They are easy to forget, they are not ergonomic, and
> I have only five fingers from birth, which doesn't help. Why would I want a
> hotkey when I can perfectly achieve what I need without one, and without
> losing any functionality?

It feels surprising that if I rename something to "/foo/" my file
suddenly gets moved into a new directory "foo", though.  Maybe it's just
me.  Does this have some precedent elsewhere?  Is this something users
would expect?