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emacs insert-file (RT & Vax)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Sun Nov 20 17:01:17 1988

To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 88 17:00:53 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

insert-file refuses to read a file if the directory containing it is 
undreadable (i.e. --x).  It says "Opening directory: permission denied" 
as if it is trying to complete the filename.  C-x C-f and C-x C-v work 
correctly, and read the file even if the directory is unreadable.

  --John Carr

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