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bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCA
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase. |
Date: |
Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:47:32 -0800 (PST) |
> Since this is not an Emacs bug, I'm closing this report, but here is what I
> do that should work for you:
>
> 1. Rename the file to 'x'.
> 2. Rename 'x' to the correctly cased name.
>
> Copy the name to the kill-ring before #1, so that you can paste it in when
> asked by #2.
Hm. I'm curious. How do we know that this is not an Emacs bug?
I do not understand why this is his error msg:
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)
That looks peculiar, if all he did was hit `R' on a directory name.
That message seems to be saying that Emacs asked the OS to move
directory .../FOO to .../foo/FOO. That doesn't seem like the right
thing for Emacs to do. Seems like Emacs should have asked the OS
to move .../FOO to .../foo (without the trailing /FOO).
Am I missing something?
Also, I see from Keith's StackExchange question about this that
he is able to use `mv FOO foo' to do the renaming without a problem.
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/19234/105
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Keith David Bershatsky, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase.,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/03
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Drew Adams, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., John Wiegley, 2016/01/04
- bug#22300: 25.1.50; Dired -- renaming folders/files to CamelCase/UPPERCASE/lowercase., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/04