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(Changing Files): copy-file allows dir as NEWNAME.

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(Magic File Names): Specify precedence order of handlers.
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Richard M. Stallman 2003-07-14 15:53:56 +00:00
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@ -1276,7 +1276,9 @@ In an interactive call, this function prompts for @var{filename} and
@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 @@ this:
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