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changeset 51913:3abc365e9d90
(Changing Files): copy-file allows dir as NEWNAME.
(Magic File Names): Specify precedence order of handlers.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:53:56 +0000 |
| parents | 3abd89560852 |
| children | 9cd313749c97 |
| files | lispref/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/files.texi Mon Jul 14 15:53:03 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/files.texi Mon Jul 14 15:53:56 2003 +0000 @@ -1276,7 +1276,9 @@ @deffn Command copy-file oldname newname &optional ok-if-exists time This command copies the file @var{oldname} to @var{newname}. An -error is signaled if @var{oldname} does not exist. +error is signaled if @var{oldname} does not exist. If @var{newname} +names a directory, it copies @var{oldname} into that directory, +preserving its final name component. If @var{time} is non-@code{nil}, then this function gives the new file the same last-modified time that the old one has. (This works on only @@ -2295,6 +2297,11 @@ The @var{handler} then needs to figure out whether to handle @var{filename} or @var{dirname}. +If the specified file name matches more than one handler, the one +whose match starts last in the file name gets precedence. This rule +is chosen so that handlers for jobs such as uncompression are handled +first, before handlers for jobs such as remote file access. + Here are the operations that a magic file name handler gets to handle: @ifnottex