arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
> > Yes, that's Bug#45127.
>
> It would be easy to hack that check to check for dired or wdired mode
> too. I am not sure how beneficial it would be though. Honestly I
> think editing permissions is just a show off :-).
It's not about changing the permissions: most of the time I have
`dired-hide-details-mode' initially off (i.e. details shown) in normal
dired because of other useful information the listing shows (times,
number of hardlinks). Then I switch to wdired to change file names and
see that I rather wanted to hide details because some file names are
long and the end is out of view, but I have already made some changes.
Instead of aborting wdired, turn `dired-hide-details-mode' on, switch to
wdired again and restart editing I would rather just toggle details from
within wdired.
Michael.