GNU bug report logs - #22300
25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 24441

Found in versions 24.5, 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
Cc: 22300 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 05:31:38 +0200

> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:57:27 -0800
> From: Keith David Bershatsky <esq <at> lawlist.com>
> 
> On an Emacs build (master branch), using Emacs -Q, I am unable to change files and folders in dired-mode from CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.
> 
> A folder named `FOO` cannot be changed to `foo` using `dired-do-rename`.
> 
>     Move ‘/Users/HOME/Desktop/FOO’ to ‘/Users/HOME/Desktop/foo/FOO’ failed:
>       (file-error Renaming Invalid argument /Users/HOME/Desktop/FOO /Users/HOME/Desktop/foo/FOO)

Why is it trying to make a directory into a subdirectory of itself?
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 60 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.