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* wdired bug with symlinks
@ 2006-12-09 18:26 Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
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 wdired bug with symlinks 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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* Re: wdired bug with symlinks
  2006-12-17 10:33 ` martin rudalics
@ 2006-12-18 15:59   ` Richard Stallman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-12-18 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emacs-devel

    >  >     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.

Yidong, thanks for fixing it -- but please do ack the message
for me, since otherwise I won't know it is fixed and I'll have to
ask again.

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