Michael Albinus wrote:
> (copy-file "~/.emacs" "/tmp/")
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-already-exists "File already exists"
> "/home/albinus/.emacs")
> copy-file("~/.emacs" "/tmp/")
> eval((copy-file "~/.emacs" "/tmp/"))
> eval-expression((copy-file "~/.emacs" "/tmp/") nil)
> call-interactively(eval-expression)
>
> Of course, "/home/albinus/.emacs" does exists, and "/tmp/.emacs"
> doesn't.
*** fileio.c 31 Jan 2004 04:24:23 -0000 1.497
--- fileio.c 2 Feb 2004 20:19:06 -0000
***************
*** 2407,2413 ****
CHECK_STRING (newname);
if (!NILP (Ffile_directory_p (newname)))
! newname = Fexpand_file_name (file, newname);
else
newname = Fexpand_file_name (newname, Qnil);
--- 2407,2413 ----
CHECK_STRING (newname);
if (!NILP (Ffile_directory_p (newname)))
! newname = Fexpand_file_name ( Ffile_name_nondirectory (file), newname);
else
newname = Fexpand_file_name (newname, Qnil);
> The problem is not evident with Emacs 21.3.
It barfs for me on 21.3, but then copy-file was not documented as
accepting a directory for NEWNAME in 21.3.
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