From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase. Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451868504 30931 80.91.229.3 (4 Jan 2016 00:48:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 00:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22300-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: John Wiegley , Keith David Bershatsky Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 01:48:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJh-0005Gi-Pq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2016 01:48:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJh-0008RT-9O for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJd-0008Q9-Ct for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJa-0005XL-6X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJa-0005XH-2x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:48:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJa-0004Vh-0O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:48:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Drew Adams Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:48:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22300 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22300-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D22300.145186846317310 (code D ref 22300); Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:48:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22300-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Jan 2016 00:47:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37005 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJG-0004V8-Ow for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:47:42 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:21302) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aFtJE-0004Uu-JJ for 22300-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:47:41 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u040lYHM018809 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 00:47:34 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u040lXMg017392 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 00:47:33 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0010.oracle.com (abhmp0010.oracle.com [141.146.116.16]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u040lX5O011361; Mon, 4 Jan 2016 00:47:33 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111178 Archived-At: > Since this is not an Emacs bug, I'm closing this report, but here is what= I > do that should work for you: >=20 > 1. Rename the file to 'x'. > 2. Rename 'x' to the correctly cased name. >=20 > Copy the name to the kill-ring before #1, so that you can paste it in whe= n > asked by #2. Hm. I'm curious. How do we know that this is not an Emacs bug? I do not understand why this is his error msg: Move '/Users/HOME/Desktop/FOO' to '/Users/HOME/Desktop/foo/FOO' failed: ^^^ ^^^^^^^ (file-error Renaming Invalid argument=20 /Users/HOME/Desktop/FOO/Users/HOME/Desktop/foo/FOO) That looks peculiar, if all he did was hit `R' on a directory name. That message seems to be saying that Emacs asked the OS to move directory .../FOO to .../foo/FOO. That doesn't seem like the right thing for Emacs to do. Seems like Emacs should have asked the OS to move .../FOO to .../foo (without the trailing /FOO). Am I missing something? Also, I see from Keith's StackExchange question about this that he is able to use `mv FOO foo' to do the renaming without a problem. http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/19234/105