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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>,  rudiwillalwaysloveyou@gmail.com,
>   stefankangas@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:21:50 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I'm against unconditionally changing the behavior based on the obscure
> > fact of whether the directory name ends in a slash or doesn't.  That
> > slash is ephemeral and users may not be aware to its importance, since
> > the semantics of foo/ and foo is the same more or less.
> 
> Yes, we're extremely sloppy (in a good way) when handling foo/ and foo,
> so it might be surprising behaviour to make this one command assign
> different semantics to the two forms.
> 
> But it's nice functionality.  Is there some other way we could get this
> without relying on the difference between foo and foo/?  A separate
> command, perhaps?  Or some extra prompting?

I suggested a new defcustom to turn this on.  A separate command would
also be okay.  Extra prompting is less nice, because it will also
affect those who don't want the new behavior.