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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 739593d 3/5: Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:12:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7492377-81d8-138d-9f91-c7ab0fc0eabf@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4mr2vc3k1x.fsf@jpl.org>

On 9/11/2017 7:14 PM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:31:30 -0400, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> branch: master
>> commit 739593d68742f45e4e35dfc99573c47a5031b646
>> Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>> Commit: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
>>      Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.
> 
>>      * etc/NEWS: Mention this.
>>      * lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el (gnus-copy-file): Treat the destination
>>      as special only if it is a directory name.
> 
> Er, isn't it necessary to make `copy-file' allow a destination
> directory for the second argument NEWNAME?

It has to be a directory name, not just a directory.  See etc/NEWS, "** 
Several functions that create or rename files now treat their...".

> M-x gnus-copy-file RET ~/foo RET /tmp RET
>   => File already exists: /tmp

Try /tmp/ instead of /tmp.

Ken





  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-12  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20170911053130.C5F002068F@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2017-09-11 23:14   ` master 739593d 3/5: Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc Katsumi Yamaoka
2017-09-12  2:12     ` Ken Brown [this message]
2017-09-12  2:33       ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2017-09-12 19:22         ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-14  4:17           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-14 16:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:59               ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-14 18:38                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-15  4:04                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-15  9:16                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12  2:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-13 19:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-13 20:07       ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 20:11         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-13 20:41           ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 21:10             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-13 23:32               ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-14 11:25                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-09-14  2:35         ` Eli Zaretskii

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