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Copy command silently no-ops; Move At crashes with NameError on open files #211

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Bug 1: AdvancedNewFileCopyCommand silently does nothing

_try_prompt_if_dest_exists in advanced_new_file/commands/copy_file_command.py has no fallback return:

def _try_prompt_if_dest_exists(self, target):
    if self.settings.get(WARN_OVERWRITE_ON_COPY_SETTING, False):
        if os.path.exists(target):
            return sublime.ok_cancel_dialog(
                target + " already exists. Copy will overwrite existing file. Continue?"
            )

It implicitly returns None whenever warn_overwrite_on_copy is off (the default) or the target doesn't already exist — i.e. in almost every normal case. _copy_file then does:

if not self._try_prompt_if_dest_exists(path):
    return (False, path)

Since not None is True, the copy is skipped unconditionally in that case. The visible symptom: the "Copy" input panel appears, you type a path, press enter, and nothing happens — no file is created, no error shown.

This has been present since the overwrite-warning feature was introduced in d4e1fc5 ("warn overwrite on copy command"). The sibling implementation in move_file_command.py's _try_prompt_if_dest_exists does this correctly (it has return True at the end) — copy_file_command.py's version is just missing that line.

Fix:

def _try_prompt_if_dest_exists(self, target):
    if self.settings.get(WARN_OVERWRITE_ON_COPY_SETTING, False):
        if os.path.exists(target):
            return sublime.ok_cancel_dialog(
                target + " already exists. Copy will overwrite existing file. Continue?"
            )
    return True

Bug 2: AdvancedNewFileMoveCommand.move_from_argument references an undefined window

In advanced_new_file/commands/move_file_command.py:

def move_from_argument(self, source, target):
    file_view = self._find_open_file(source)
    if file_view is not None:
        self.view.run_command("save")
        window.focus_view(file_view)
        window.run_command("close")
    ...

window is never assigned in this method (every other method in the file does window = self.window first). This path is hit via "Move At" (sidebar context menu → Move) when the targeted file is also currently open in a tab, and raises NameError: name 'window' is not defined.

Fix: use self.window instead of the bare window in both places.


Happy to open a PR with both one-line fixes if that's useful.

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