From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:30:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83txxeb6q8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342024795 31755 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2012 16:39:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:39:55 +0000 (UTC) To: 11912@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 18:39:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sozx3-0003bz-Jr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sozx2-0003oV-Ms for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SozoM-0003pM-5e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:30:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:59228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SozoL-0003pG-Od for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M70005008HIP600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:30:42 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M70004IR8J654P0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:30:42 +0300 (IDT) X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:61821 Archived-At: On a system that supports symlinks, do this: emacs -Q C-x d RET Go to any file and type S foobar RET This creates a symlink named 'foobar' to the file on whose line you were when you typed S. Now go to the line of 'foobar' and type this: M 0444 RET Emacs says "Redisplaying...done", but the mode bits of the target of the symlink do not reflect the change. Type 'g', and they will. >From a cursory look at the code (dired-do-redisplay), it sounds like Dired assumes that the file to be refreshed is necessarily on the current line (or marked). This is false for symlinks and the 'M' command (and probably a few others, like 'O'), because the file that changes is the target of the symlink. I think this bug was in Emacs since about forever; I tried as far back as Emacs 22.1, and the problem was still there. In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-06-11 on HOME-C4E4A596F7 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (3.4)' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: cp1255 default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Mail Minor modes in effect: diff-auto-refine-mode: t flyspell-mode: t desktop-save-mode: t show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t temp-buffer-resize-mode: t line-number-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Recent input: n SPC t h e SPC n e t . SPC W i n d o w s M-q l i b f f i SPC M-q C-c C-s d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d SPC o d d d d d SPC d d C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC C-r e g g e d d d d d SPC d SPC d d d d d SPC d d d d d n d SPC d d d d d d d d d n d d d d d d d d SPC d d d d n SPC d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d SPC d d SPC d SPC d d SPC d SPC d d d d d d d d C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z C-z d C-x C-s M-x r e p o r t Recent messages: Sending email done Sending...done Mark set [2 times] Showing message 3132 Showing message 3132...done Added to d:/usr/eli/rmail/TEXINFO.rmail Mark saved where search started No following nondeleted message Saving file d:/usr/eli/rmail/INBOX... Wrote d:/usr/eli/rmail/INBOX [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow emacsbug multi-isearch network-stream starttls tls smtpmail auth-source eieio assoc gnus-util password-cache mailalias sendmail rmailout tcl nxml-uchnm rng-xsd xsd-regexp rng-cmpct rng-nxml rng-valid rng-loc rng-uri rng-parse nxml-parse rng-match rng-dt rng-util rng-pttrn nxml-ns nxml-mode nxml-outln nxml-rap nxml-util nxml-glyph nxml-enc xmltok sgml-mode conf-mode newcomment parse-time generic ld-script sh-script executable vc-git arc-mode archive-mode diff-mode dired-x dired make-mode tar-mode vc-cvs face-remap org-wl org-w3m org-vm org-rmail org-mhe org-mew org-irc org-jsinfo org-infojs org-html org-exp ob-exp org-exp-blocks find-func org-agenda org-info org-gnus org-docview org-bibtex bibtex org-bbdb org byte-opt warnings bytecomp byte-compile cconv macroexp advice help-fns advice-preload ob-emacs-lisp ob-tangle ob-ref ob-lob ob-table org-footnote org-src ob-comint ob-keys ob ob-eval org-pcomplete pcomplete comint ansi-color ring org-list org-faces org-compat org-entities org-macs noutline outline easy-mmode cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs flyspell texinfo jka-compr autorevert info vc-bzr cc-mode cc-fonts cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs regexp-opt qp rmailsum rmailmm message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader mail-parse rfc2231 rmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils desktop server filecache mairix cus-edit easymenu cus-start cus-load wid-edit saveplace midnight ispell generic-x paren battery time time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 disp-table ls-lisp w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process multi-tty emacs)