* dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention magic characters
@ 2002-03-22 4:16 Dan Jacobson
2002-03-22 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2002-03-22 4:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention the use of $ in the target file
name. E.g. I told it to copy to foo$$ and it copies to foo$, I told
it foo$$$ and I get an error, I told it foo$$$$ and I get foo$$.
Nowhere do I get $$ to be the shell PID... that's OK though, as long
as the Help string describes what the deal is with $, etc. and
any other surprises ["!"?] on board.
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* Re: dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention magic characters
2002-03-22 4:16 dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention magic characters Dan Jacobson
@ 2002-03-22 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2002-03-22 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 22 Mar 2002 12:16:28 +0800
>
> dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention the use of $ in the target file
> name. E.g. I told it to copy to foo$$ and it copies to foo$, I told
> it foo$$$ and I get an error, I told it foo$$$$ and I get foo$$.
> Nowhere do I get $$ to be the shell PID...
$$ is a general feature of file-name handling in Emacs, so it's not
clear where to document that (except in the manual; see the node
"File names").
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