There is an incompatible change in Emacs 22: Many dired commands (as
far as I can see everything in dired's "Operate" menu) refuse to work
on the current and parent directories, signalling the error
"Cannot operate on `.' or `..'".
I understand that this may be a feature rather than a bug, since many
of the commands in dired's "Operate" menu won't work on these
directories, while others may be potentially dangerous. But
a) Some commands, like dired-do-touch or dired-do-symlink, are
perfectly legitimate, and
b) this is currently nowhere mentioned, and I think there should be
entries in the NEWS file and the Emacs manual.
My Emacs version is:
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.4)
of 2005-08-13 on debian, modified by Debian
Recent messages:
dired-get-filename: Cannot operate on `.' or `..' [4 times]
Regards,
--
Sven Joachim
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