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From: Phil Agre
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 1991 16:25

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Suppose I am editing the file foo/quux, and I want to write out the
buffer to the file bar/quux.  Then I ought to be able to say:

  c-x c-w m-rubout b a r / return

and have the filename default to bar/quux.  Instead what happens is
that it tries to write out the file to "bar/", i.e., with an empty
filename.  Would it violate some deep premise of the theory of
filenames to have "foo/quux" + "bar/" = "bar/quux"?

Phil Agre

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