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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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).

OK, you've convinced me.  Adding a user option like
`dired-create-destination-dirs' (as Eli said) is probably the best,
though.

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