bug#46438: 27.1; wdired bug and suggestion

bug#46438: 27.1; wdired bug and suggestion

[Francesco Potortì]

The bug:

After (setq wdired-keep-marker-rename ?w), if I rename a file to an
already existing fle name and then answer no to overwriting it, the
other file is marked with w, while it should not.

The suggestion:

For some reason, once I finish editing in wdired mode, I istinctively
press RET to finish, only to discover that it does nothing.  I would
bind RET to wdired-exit or wdired-finish-edit

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bug#46438: 27.1; wdired bug and suggestion

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> writes:

> The bug:
>
> After (setq wdired-keep-marker-rename ?w), if I rename a file to an
> already existing fle name and then answer no to overwriting it, the
> other file is marked with w, while it should not.

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

> The suggestion:
>
> For some reason, once I finish editing in wdired mode, I istinctively
> press RET to finish, only to discover that it does nothing.  I would
> bind RET to wdired-exit or wdired-finish-edit

I think many people may be hitting RET by mistake in that buffer, not
wanting to end the editing session, so I think that would make things
more confusing.

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bug#46438: 27.1; wdired bug and suggestion

[Michael Heerdegen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I think many people may be hitting RET by mistake in that buffer, not
> wanting to end the editing session, so I think that would make things
> more confusing.

Yes.  Users who prefer that can add a binding to `wdired-mode-map'.

Michael.