From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: 7131-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7131: 24.0.50; `dired' with cons arg should not ignore arg if buffer exists
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:36:34 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inimh0dp.fsf@calancha-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871spe0yas.fsf@calancha-pc> (Tino Calancha's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:39:07 +0900")
>> Following that rationale, the behavior for a cons arg should be to
>> respect the explicit file list passed, not to simply ignore it and reuse
>> an existing buffer.
>>
>> And since it would be problematic to test the file list for differences
>> from the existing listing (whether or not it came from a cons arg
>> previously), we should always just update the buffer to reflect the
>> file-list that is passed. IOW, with an explicit file list, never reuse
>> an existing Dired buffer of the same name.
> IMO, if `dired-directory' is a cons and DIR-OR-LIST is a string then we
> must update the buffer as well: in this case, the user want to see the
> full listing of that directory.
Fixed in master branch as commit 1d559e384b467b3f74e8b78695f124b561c884d9
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-21 4:36 UTC|newest]
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2010-09-29 15:34 bug#7131: 24.0.50; `dired' with cons arg should not ignore arg if buffer exists Drew Adams
2017-07-18 11:39 ` Tino Calancha
2017-07-21 4:36 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
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