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Re: rename-file


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: rename-file
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:09:45 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:

> What's problematic is that returning the previous name contradicts the
> doc string of buffer-file-name: "Name of file visited in current
> buffer, or nil if not visiting a file."

That's not a contradiction.  All that buffer-file-name defines is a
relationship between a buffer and a file name, independent of the
current meaning of that name.

Andreas.

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