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bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#24441: 24.5; rename directory in dired to change case
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:28:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

On Sep 15 2016, Brady Trainor <brady@bradyt.com> wrote:

> If I have a directory `a', and try to rename it `A' in dired, it errors.
>
> `(file-error Renaming Invalid argument /tmp/a /tmp/A/a)'. 

That's because your filesystem is case-insensitve, thus /tmp/A already
exists.

Andreas.

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