Subject: bug#17701: closed (Re: bug#17701: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:52:03 +0000

Your bug report

#17701: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#17701: 24.4.50; rename-file gets error reading arguments
From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:50:58 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> Stefan, it looks like your commit in revision 117170
> ([email-masked]) is the root
> cause.

Yup.  Should be fixed now, thank you,

        Stefan

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)

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