Re: dired-do-rename on "." and ".."

[Richard Stallman]

       If one has a bunch of marked files including . and .. , I am
       personally not even really sure what the result of R , C , S , H , and
       some others _ought_ to be. These commands would operate on different
       levels of the directory tree, with potentially confusing results.

    You are right.  It seems to me now that I never used "S" on ".".
    Sorry for the misleading remark.

It seems pretty clear to me what these operations would do, including
S, for example--making a link to `.' or `..' is like making a link to
`foo'.