Re: master 739593d 3/5: Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.

[Ken Brown]

On 9/11/2017 7:14 PM, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:31:30 -0400, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > branch: master
> > commit 739593d68742f45e4e35dfc99573c47a5031b646
> > Author: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> > Commit: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> >      Make gnus-copy-file act like copy-file etc.
>
> >      * etc/NEWS: Mention this.
> >      * lisp/gnus/gnus-util.el (gnus-copy-file): Treat the destination
> >      as special only if it is a directory name.
>
> Er, isn't it necessary to make `copy-file' allow a destination
> directory for the second argument NEWNAME?

It has to be a directory name, not just a directory.  See etc/NEWS, "** 
Several functions that create or rename files now treat their...".

> M-x gnus-copy-file RET ~/foo RET /tmp RET
>   => File already exists: /tmp

Try /tmp/ instead of /tmp.

Ken