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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention magic characters
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:31:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8011-Fri22Mar2002123147+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ofhhnso3.fsf@jidanni.org> (message from Dan Jacobson on 22 Mar 2002 12:16:28 +0800)

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 22 Mar 2002 12:16:28 +0800
> 
> dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention the use of $ in the target file
> name.  E.g. I told it to copy to foo$$ and it copies to foo$, I told
> it foo$$$ and I get an error, I told it foo$$$$ and I get foo$$.
> Nowhere do I get $$ to be the shell PID...

$$ is a general feature of file-name handling in Emacs, so it's not
clear where to document that (except in the manual; see the node
"File names").

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2002-03-22  4:16 dired-do-copy's Help doesn't mention magic characters Dan Jacobson
2002-03-22 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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