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New Feature -- dired: Option to create a directory when copying/moving.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: 22322 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22322: New Feature -- dired: Option to create a directory when copying/moving.
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 18:06:50 +0100

Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com> writes:

> As a suggestion, perhaps the Emacs team would be interested in
> presenting the user with an option to create a new directory when
> copying/moving in dired-mode.  This is something I use quite
> frequently in my own setup, because it saves me an extra step by
> obviating the need to create the directory beforehand.
>
> The following is a working example of the above-mentioned concept,
> which is not intended to be a patch per se.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

Sounds like a good idea to me.  Could you work your code into a patch?

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