🚀 go-pugleaf

Apologies in advance if this is already known.

In src/fileio.c, the routine 'barf_or_query_if_file_exists' in certain cases
(such as copy-file noticing that the destination file exists) does the
equivalent of:

  (signal 'file-already-exists (cons filename nil))

The *intent* of doing this is that an error message is output of the form:

  File already exists: filename

What actually happens is that the error message output is just:

  filename

The reason for this is that cmd_error in src/keyboard.c correctly gets the
'error-message' string "File already exists" from the error, but then notices
that one of the error-conditions for 'file-already-exists' is 'file-error' and
overwrites the error message with the name of the argument to the error, i.e.
just the filename.

The bug can be seen by creating a file called /tmp/foo and filling it with a
few lines of garbage, followed by M-x copy-file /tmp/foo /tmp/foo and
answering "n" to the prompt.

If it matters, I'm running GNU Emacs 18.55 on HP-UX 7.0.

Hope this helps... a bit...

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