Re: dired-do-rename on "." and ".."

[Luc Teirlinck]

Richard Stallman wrote:

      Not wanting to spend a lot of time, I wrote code that won't let most
      Dired commands operate on either . or ...

But in the current CVS (freshly bootstrapped this evening and
including Markus' latest patch:

2003-06-05  Markus Rost  <address@hidden>

            * dired.el (dired-get-filename): Don't err for . and
              .. for calls from dired-add-entry.) :

several Dired commands, including, for instance, `!' and
dired-get-filename give errors like:

dired-get-filename: Cannot operate on `.' or `..'

when applied to _any_ directory, not just `.' or `..".

Was this intentional? 

Sincerely,

Luc.