Re: Wdired doesn't like re-search-forward

[Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 at 19:43, Michael Heerdegen
<michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>
> Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >   (No changes to be performed)
> >
> > Is this related to the recent (?) changes in wdired?
>
> Could be.
>
> > I noticed that now letters are bound to `wdired--self-insert' instead
> > of `self-insert-command' in wdired mode... is there something that I
> > need to do to make wdired recognize changes that were not done by
> > `wdired--self-insert'?
>
> No (this is implemented using `before-change-functions' and
> `after-change-functions' and should automatically recognize any kind of
> modifications).
>
> But here a quick test using a
>
>  (while (re-search-forward ...) replace-match ...)
>
> loop didn't reveal the problem for me.
>
> > And, more important of all: should I prepare a minimal way to
> > reproduce the problem and submit a proper bug report?
>
> If the problem is not caused by your setup (can you reproduce the
> problem in emacs -Q; do you use a recent build?) -- yes of course,
> please do that.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.

Hi Michael!
Done:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg01037.html
  Cheers, E. =)