Re: EFS 1.6 bug: copy-file to SAME NAME

Andy Norman (ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Thu, 24 Mar 1994 20:21:42 +0000


Sandy writes:

> I agree that this is a bug, but it's not an efs bug.  M-x copy-file in
> FSF emacs 18 and 19 from FILENAME to DIR, does not interpret the
> destination as DIR/FILENAME.

I really miss this extended functionality which we plugged with ange-ftp.  I
vote that we ask RMS to add it to v19 so that both local and remote copies can
take advantage of it.

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