From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 32967@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32967: dired-do-rename: don't say overwrite when you really mean attach as child
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 17:58:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7dk36ng.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg7auedn.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:31:48 +0800")
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
> R runs the command dired-do-rename (found in dired-mode-map)
>
> It says e.g.,
> Overwrite ‘/tmp/201840’? [Type yn!q or C-h]
>
> That is great, but it just uses the same message for all cases:
> file->file
> file->directory
> directory->file
> directory->directory.
>
> At least the case I tested: directory->directory, overwriting is very
> much different that what really happens (attaching as child).
I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Do you have a test case?
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2018-10-07 12:31 bug#32967: dired-do-rename: don't say overwrite when you really mean attach as child 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2019-07-11 15:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-07-13 23:09 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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