Re: dired cons bug?

[Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>]

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Am 11.08.22 um 07:55 schrieb Jean Louis:
> * Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at> [2022-08-11 08:05]:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question regarding using dired programmatically in Emacs 28.1. Say I
>> do the following call to open a dired buffer and insert the files:
>>
>> (dired "/home/"(cons "/home/admin" '("/home/user/tmp/test/a/a" "/home/user/tmp/test/b/b" "/home/user/tmp/test/c/c")))
> 
> Function is not intended to be use that way.
> 
> (dired DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES)
> 
> DIRNAME must be directory name. Not cons and some files inside.

Documentation says something different, and why should it work if that was not 
true?

------------------------------------------------------------------------
If DIRNAME is a string, Dired displays a list of files in DIRNAME (which
may also have shell wildcards appended to select certain files).

If DIRNAME is a cons, its first element is taken as the directory name
and the rest as an explicit list of files to make directory entries for.
In this case, SWITCHES are applied to each of the files separately, and
therefore switches that control the order of the files in the produced
listing have no effect.

You can flag files for deletion with d and then
delete them by typing x.
Type h after entering Dired for more info.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

But then it also says this, which I have missed until now:

`If DIRNAME is already in a Dired buffer, that buffer is used without refresh.'

Maybe that has something to do with my problem? How could I get the buffer to 
be used *WITH* refresh?

Regards,
Harald

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