Re: Creating a directory target for dired-do-copy

["Luis O. Silva" <l.o.silva@mail.ru>]

Hi Kevin,

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:25 -0600, "Luis O. Silva" <l.o.silva@mail.ru> said:

   LS> I'm very grateful for your help, unfortunately it
   LS> doesn't work for me. I put the previous snippet in my
   LS> .emacs file and, after reloading, I typed `C' within
   LS> dired. Then in the minibuffer I typed after Copy [-p]
   LS> file-test to:

   LS>  ~/temporary/non-existing-file/

Sorry for answering my own post, but it was written
incorrectly.

   LS> where non-existing-file is a non-existing file.

Here I mean non-existing directory.

   LS>  Emacs says

   LS> File exists: /home/silva/temporary/non-existing-file/

   LS> Actually after loading the snippet, Emacs says the
   LS> same even for an existing directory!

   LS> I tried to correct the code, but it seems that I
   LS> don't understand it. Any hint will be enormously
   LS> appreciated.

Thank you again for any help.
luis


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