Hi,
If a folder has a file "a.b", I can't create a folder named "a.b" in the same parent folder.
Here is how to recreate that in an "emacs -Q" session:
> emacs -Q &
C-x C-w C-a C-k ~/.emacs.d/test.el
M-: (make-directory "~/.emacs.d/test.el")
Doing so gave me the below error.
Unix allows have a file and a directory with the same name in the same parent folder. I believe that the distinction between an existing file or an existing directory is not being made here.
Debugger info:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-already-exists "File exists" "/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/test.el/")
make-directory-internal("/home/kmodi/.emacs.d/test.el/")
make-directory("~/.emacs.d/test.el/")
eval((make-directory "~/.emacs.d/test.el/") nil)
eval-_expression_((make-directory "~/.emacs.d/test.el/") nil)
funcall-interactively(eval-_expression_ (make-directory "~/.emacs.d/test.el/") nil)
call-interactively(eval-_expression_ nil nil)
command-execute(eval-_expression_)
In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4)
of 2015-02-23 on ...
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Saving file /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/test.el...
Wrote /home/kmodi/.emacs.d/test.el
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