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Diffstat (limited to 'src/fileio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/fileio.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c index 8808ad1d7ad..77ff7d8b6e7 100644 --- a/src/fileio.c +++ b/src/fileio.c @@ -1827,7 +1827,8 @@ DEFUN ("copy-file", Fcopy_file, Scopy_file, 2, 6, "fCopy file: \nGCopy %s to file: \np\nP", doc: /* Copy FILE to NEWNAME. Both args must be strings. If NEWNAME is a directory name, copy FILE to a like-named file under -NEWNAME. +NEWNAME. For NEWNAME to be recognized as a directory name, it should +end in a slash. This function always sets the file modes of the output file to match the input file. @@ -2252,7 +2253,8 @@ DEFUN ("rename-file", Frename_file, Srename_file, 2, 3, doc: /* Rename FILE as NEWNAME. Both args must be strings. If file has names other than FILE, it continues to have those names. If NEWNAME is a directory name, rename FILE to a like-named file under -NEWNAME. +NEWNAME. For NEWNAME to be recognized as a directory name, it should +end in a slash. Signal a `file-already-exists' error if a file NEWNAME already exists unless optional third argument OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS is non-nil. |