GNU bug report logs - #30624
27.0.50; dired-create-destination-dirs doesn't work when renaming more than one file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Amos Bird <amosbird <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 02:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Amos Bird <amosbird <at> gmail.com>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30624: 27.0.50; dired-create-destination-dirs doesn't work when renaming more than one file
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:48:39 +0200

> From: Amos Bird <amosbird <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:29:09 +0800
> 
> I'm using emacs 27.0.50 and have dired-create-destination-dirs set 
> to 'always.
> When renaming more than one files to a new directory, dired throws 
> an error at
> /usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/dired-aux.el.gz:1891 . It 
> fails early before
> it has time to check whether a new directory should be created.

Sorry for the long delay in handling your report.

Tino, could you please look into fixing this?  It looks like your
change that introduced dired-create-destination-dirs didn't support
the use case where several files are marked to be moved to a single
non-existent directory.
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