Subject: bug#9864: 24.0.90; dired/copying+dwim-target : misplaced directory

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:36:04 +0300

> Create some directories :
>
> $ find
> dest
> dest/a
> source
> source/a
> source/a/foo
>
> Open two dired buffers in source + dest, enable `dired-dwim-target' and
> dired-do-copy source/a to dest.  Now dest looks like this :
>
> /tmp/dest
> /tmp/dest/a
> /tmp/dest/a/a
> /tmp/dest/a/a/foo

It's unclear what do you expect.  If you want to get this:

/tmp/dest
/tmp/dest/a
/tmp/dest/a/foo

then you have to remove the final slash in the minibuffer
after calling `dired-do-copy'.  So instead of:

  Copy a to: /home/work/emacs/test/dired-dwim/dest/ RET

you rather need this:

  Copy a to: /home/work/emacs/test/dired-dwim/dest RET

and then it will ask:

  Overwrite `/tmp/dest/a'? [Type yn!q or C-h] n

and then it's better to answer `n'.