Re: occasional failure to rename

[martin rudalics]

> Usually I am able to rename files in dired, but sometimes emacs throws
> an error when I try to rename/move a file or directory:
>
>   dired-rename-file: Symbol's value as variable is void: dired-backup-
> overwrite

We probably have to add an autoload for `dired-backup-overwrite'.

Can you make it fail reliably when you do Emacs -Q, open a directory,
and try to rename a file before doing anything else?

> This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution
> I have found is to close out of emacs and restart.

Do you have to restart Emacs because it's unresponsive or because it's
the only way to make renaming work?