From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Luis O. Silva" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating a directory target for dired-do-copy Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:07:38 -0600 Message-ID: <16894.26074.300729.547080@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> References: <35v2tbF4ok485U1@individual.net> <16893.9397.851618.136556@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> Reply-To: "Luis O. Silva" NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107187536 25926 80.91.229.6 (31 Jan 2005 16:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 31 17:05:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cve3L-0005we-00 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:05:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CveG4-0002YD-Rm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:18:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CveFK-0002DS-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CveFD-00029H-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CveFD-00029E-PC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.67.23.122] (helo=mx2.mail.ru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cvdwh-0003mf-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.248.51.45] (port=1029 helo=mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1Cvdwg-0002EK-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:58:34 +0300 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <16893.9397.851618.136556@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-Spam: Not detected X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23777 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23777 Hi Kevin, On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:25 -0600, "Luis O. Silva" = 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 --=20 Luis Octavio Silva Pereyra. IIMAS-UNAM Depto. de M=E9todos Matem=E1ticos y Num=E9ricos Apdo. postal 20-726 01000 M=E9xico, D.F.