From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: knubee@gmail.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:46:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E27D8C.2040600@gmx.at> (raw)
> Usually I am able to rename files in dired, but sometimes emacs throws
> an error when I try to rename/move a file or directory:
>
> dired-rename-file: Symbol's value as variable is void: dired-backup-
> overwrite
We probably have to add an autoload for `dired-backup-overwrite'.
Can you make it fail reliably when you do Emacs -Q, open a directory,
and try to rename a file before doing anything else?
> This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution
> I have found is to close out of emacs and restart.
Do you have to restart Emacs because it's unresponsive or because it's
the only way to make renaming work?
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