* wdired bug with symlinks
@ 2006-12-09 18:26 Richard Stallman
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-12-09 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
This bug in wdired will remain when Martin's change is installed:
> One problem I found is that it allows me to edit the last space in the
> " -> " string that indicates a symbolic link.
>
> If I have a symbolic link "a -> b" in the directory I'm editing, I can
> delete the 2nd space, leaving "a ->b", and when I hit C-c C-c, I end
> up with "a -> /dev/null".
>
> Doing a query replace of " " with "." when there are symlinks present
> also replaces the " " which follows each "->".
Would someone please fix that, then ack?
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* wdired bug with symlinks
@ 2006-12-17 5:38 Richard Stallman
2006-12-17 10:33 ` martin rudalics
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-12-17 5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
[I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
This bug in wdired will remain when Martin's change is installed:
> One problem I found is that it allows me to edit the last space in the
> " -> " string that indicates a symbolic link.
>
> If I have a symbolic link "a -> b" in the directory I'm editing, I can
> delete the 2nd space, leaving "a ->b", and when I hit C-c C-c, I end
> up with "a -> /dev/null".
>
> Doing a query replace of " " with "." when there are symlinks present
> also replaces the " " which follows each "->".
Would someone please fix that, then ack?
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* Re: wdired bug with symlinks
2006-12-17 5:38 Richard Stallman
@ 2006-12-17 10:33 ` martin rudalics
2006-12-18 15:59 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: martin rudalics @ 2006-12-17 10:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Richard Stallman schrieb:
> [I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
>
> This bug in wdired will remain when Martin's change is installed:
>
> > One problem I found is that it allows me to edit the last space in the
> > " -> " string that indicates a symbolic link.
> >
> > If I have a symbolic link "a -> b" in the directory I'm editing, I can
> > delete the 2nd space, leaving "a ->b", and when I hit C-c C-c, I end
> > up with "a -> /dev/null".
> >
> > Doing a query replace of " " with "." when there are symlinks present
> > also replaces the " " which follows each "->".
>
> Would someone please fix that, then ack?
Chong fixed that instantaneously when he installed my change.
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