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Re: bug in copy-directory


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: bug in copy-directory
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:02:44 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Actually on 23.2.92.1, copy-directory, called interactively or not copy
>> the files of directory A to existing directory B instead of copying
>> directory A inside directory B.(as a subdirectory of B).

> Hmm, this is a bit problematic.
[...]
> The trouble is that Lisp callers might depend on the old behavior.

Couldn't/shouldn't we distinguish between interactive and
non-interactive calls, then?  I.e. have the interactive spec turn the
B into (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory A)) when B is an
existing directory.


        Stefan



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