From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 38707@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38707: dired-do-rename doesn't check for "/" !
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:37:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0cge2pl.5.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
R runs the command dired-do-rename (found in dired-mode-map), which is
an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in ‘dired-aux.el’.
But it has a big bug.
Let's say you tell it to rename qqq to "xxx/yyy/zzz/".
And it works.
You get xxx/yyy/zzz/qqq
But if there is no directory zzz,
then one day you will discover you got
xxx/yyy/qqq .
Real "mv" doesn't have this bug.
$ mv k /tmp/p/
mv: cannot create regular file '/tmp/p/': Not a directory
dired-do-rename perhaps under the hood does the "mv" action, but instead
of reporting the failure, tries again with the final slash removed!
emacs-version "26.3"
next reply other threads:[~2019-12-22 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-22 16:37 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2019-12-24 4:28 ` bug#38707: dired-do-rename doesn't check for "/" ! Nick Helm
2020-08-06 10:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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