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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:

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

Breaking this ages-old (and convenient) behaviour doesn't seem like a
good idea to me either.

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