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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 56423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56423: 29.0.50; Hi-lock in dired broken by toggling wdired-mode
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 14:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871quv92yp.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a69j4wwc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:22:11 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> You mean, the display will no longer match the actual situation on
> disk?  Then I think an unwind-protect or condition-case form that
> resyncs the display in case of a signal is in order, since preventing
> the user from aborting in that place would be wrong -- what if the
> user realizes, too late, that some of the changes mean trouble?

The question is how to unwind.  I guess the only sensible action would
be to revert the dired buffer, since we can't revert partial file
changes, and the situation could look differently in many different
ways.

Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-08 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06 16:22 bug#56423: 29.0.50; Hi-lock in dired broken by toggling wdired-mode Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-06 18:58 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-06 19:19   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-07  5:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-07 10:26       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-07 10:35         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-07 11:14           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-07 13:29             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-07 15:09               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-07 15:19                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-07 16:03                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 12:04                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-07-08 12:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-08 12:57                         ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-07-08 12:59                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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