Subject: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments
From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 07:50:53 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

I type M-x rename-file RET foo.html RET
and get an error "wrong type argument, string".

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  call-interactively(rename-file record nil)
  command-execute(rename-file record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "rename-file")
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "rename-file")
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.3 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
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