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).
>> >
>> > What is it that should work fine with 29+ but was broken before?
>> 	
>> A dired buffer in wdired-mode composed of a list of absolute filenames.
>
> I see.  Did you maybe mean "arbitrary" instead of
> "absolute"?

Absolute, but it is not really important, try both:

    (dired '("~/tmp" "/home/you/tmp/foo.txt" "/home/you/tmp/bar.txt" "/home/you/tmp/baz.txt"))
    (dired '("~/tmp" "foo.txt" "bar.txt" "baz.txt"))

Then edit a filename with wdired and see the error in 28.2 and not in 29+.

> I guess maybe you're saying that WDired didn't work with arbitrary
> file-name listings before Emacs 29?


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Thierry