Suppose there are two Dired buffers, say ~/foo and ~/bar, which look as follows:
/home/sven/foo: total used in directory 16 available 2005008 drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:18 . drwxr-xr-x 51 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 9 Nov 4 08:18 a -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 5 Nov 4 08:18 b -------------------------------------------- /home/sven/bar: total used in directory 12 available 2005008 drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:26 . drwxr-xr-x 51 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 7 Nov 4 08:19 a Now I decided to copy ~/foo/[ab] to ~/bar, i.e. marked the files and pressed 'C'. The prompt Overwrite `/home/sven/bar/a'? [Type yn!q or C-h] came, I answered 'n' and got the message Copying error for /home/sven/foo/a: (file-already-exists File already exists /home/sven/bar/a) So far, so good, but the Dired buffer for ~/bar now looks: /home/sven/bar: total used in directory 12 available 2005008 C -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 5 Nov 4 08:18 b C -rw-r--r-- 1 sven sven 7 Nov 4 08:19 a drwxr-xr-x 2 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:26 . drwxr-xr-x 51 sven sven 4096 Nov 4 08:16 .. The file ~/bar/a is incorrectly marked as copied. In GNU Emacs 22.0.90.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2006-10-28 on debian, modified by Debian (Debian emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20061027-1) X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.90/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.90/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.0.90/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Dired by name Minor modes in effect: display-time-mode: t auto-image-file-mode: t show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t temp-buffer-resize-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: <next> <prior> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <return> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <down> m <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> m X t o u c h <return> g U <up> <return> g C-x 4 d <M-backspace> b a r <return> g g C-x o g <down> m m C <M-backspace> b a r <return> n M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <retu rn> Recent messages: 2 marks removed Directory has changed on disk; type g to update Dired [2 times] Overwrite `/home/sven/bar/a'? [Type yn!q or C-h] Overwrite `/home/sven/bar/a'? [Type yn!q or C-h] n Copy: 1 of 2 Copy: 2 of 2 Copying error for /home/sven/foo/a: (file-already-exists File already exists /home/sven/bar/a) Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
