From: Nick Helm <nick@tenpoint.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 10:11:57 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Signal an error in dired when moving to a directory that doesn't exist
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~6791
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=66bdf77adfa115ad16ec8557c250f0e5683262b0;p=emacs.git

Signal an error in dired when moving to a directory that doesn't exist

* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-create-files): Give an error when
apparently moving to a directory name, and that directory doesn't
exist (bug#38707).
---

diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el
index 777df79a6ef..6587d039b72 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-aux.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el
@@ -1978,6 +1978,10 @@ Optional arg HOW-TO determines how to treat the target.
 	(apply (car into-dir) operation rfn-list fn-list target (cdr into-dir))
       (if (not (or dired-one-file into-dir))
 	  (error "Marked %s: target must be a directory: %s" operation target))
+      (if (and (not (file-directory-p (car fn-list)))
+               (not (file-directory-p target))
+               (directory-name-p target))
+          (error "%s: Target directory does not exist: %s" operation target))
       ;; rename-file bombs when moving directories unless we do this:
       (or into-dir (setq target (directory-file-name target)))
       (dired-create-files