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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
	"peter.mao@gmail.com" <peter.mao@gmail.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"63676@debbugs.gnu.org" <63676@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#63676: cancelling editable dired causes UI problems with dired
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 16:21:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qj0e7zs.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488F158F1C89057D9B6BAC9F3459@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

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Hello Drew,

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> With Dired+ you can create a Dired buffer for any
> arbitrary list of files & dirs, even interactively,
> in several ways.  Such a buffer isn't connected
> with any particular directory listings (whether by
> `ls' or ls-lisp).
>
> E.g., commands `diredp-marked(-other-window)' do
> it for the marked files & dirs in a Dired buffer.
> (`C-M-*' is bound to `diredp-marked-other-window'.)
>
> You can then use WDired on such buffer, to make any
> changes you like.
>
> Dired+ hasn't tried to fix any WDired problems, so
> some WDired problems that you pointed to might
> still be problematic with Dired+; dunno.

Should work fine with emacs-29+ and broken before (needed a patched Wdired).

> I'm not an expert on WDired, and I haven't tried to look into use
> cases etc.  But for the case you describe it seems to work OK
> (superficial testing).
>
>
> https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el


-- 
Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-28 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-24  4:51 bug#63676: cancelling editable dired causes UI problems with dired Peter Mao
2023-05-24 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-24 12:09   ` Stephen Berman
2023-05-25  1:14   ` Peter Mao
2023-05-26  9:25     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-26 23:51   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27  0:55   ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27  2:39     ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27  6:26       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-27  6:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-28  1:36       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28  4:09         ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-28  5:01           ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28  5:08             ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-28 16:04             ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28 16:21               ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2023-05-28 19:17                 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-29  3:43                   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-29  5:16                     ` Drew Adams
2023-05-29  9:43                       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-29 17:11                         ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28 16:05           ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28  3:39       ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28  6:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-29  1:35           ` Michael Heerdegen

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