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26.3; Renaming a directory with an external tool

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Message #13 received at 40140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Nicolas Gimenez <n.gimenez66 <at> gmail.com>, 40140 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40140: 26.3; Renaming a directory with an external tool
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:25:16 +0200

Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net> writes:

>> 5) Get back to Emacs. Attempt to write file from Emacs, minibuffer in 
>> the bottom shows: "Please answer y or n. Directory 
>> '/home/nicolas/elixir_learn/mastery/test/support/tmp/' does not exist; 
>> create? (y or n)"
>
> If you try this experiment with any other text editor I think you will
> see similar effects. I tried with gedit and vim and got the
> corresponding effects.

I don't really think there's anything reasonable Emacs can do (by
itself) in these cases -- what should happen here depends on each
individual case (the tree is totally gone; it's moved somewhere else;
etc), so that has to be left to the user, like Tomas says:

> Using Emacs in this case I would do C-x C-w and then navigate to the
> existing directory, then one with the new name tmp2. Then I will have to
> allow over-writing the copy of test.ex on disc in tmp2.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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