From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:46:36 +0200 Message-ID: <46E27D8C.2040600@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189248372 32242 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 10:46:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 10:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: knubee@gmail.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 12:46:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITxpB-0000fW-PU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:46:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITxp9-0001WH-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:45:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITxot-0001Ug-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITxor-0001T8-Il for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITxor-0001Sp-Dn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITxoq-0004TP-UW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:45:41 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Sep 2007 10:45:38 -0000 Original-Received: from N906P016.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.57.48]) [62.47.57.48] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 08 Sep 2007 12:45:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX184IqAA2fo4Stexfo92tmO6bS6HINVZEWkwR4/PPv HLFUWWFz3wnVbV User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47337 Archived-At: > 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?