Re: revert-buffer in dired

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Dieter Faulbaum <mail@faulbaum.in-berlin.de> writes:

> I think, it would be nice, if the newly introduced:
>
> *** Clicking on base name of directory reverts buffer.
> When 'dired-make-directory-clickable' is non-nil, clicking on the base
> name of the directory now reverts the Dired buffer.
>
> should not change the position of the cursor.
> Is this possible?

I wrote a note to the bug report where this change had been discussed -
you are CC'd.

> The 'revert-buffer' in dired also changes the position of the cursor
> (to the filename of the "actual" line).
> What is the idea of this?

Dired saves a lot of information to restore for reverting.  Since the
file name point is on can appear on a different line after reverting, we save
the file name and, I think, don't care about the position to a finer
degree since it is not really relevant for the sake of dired commands.


Michael.