On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:10:16 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Iñaki Cornejo de la Mora <cornejodlm@ciencias.unam.mx>
>> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:16:52 -0600
>> 
>> When using dired-hide-details-mode with the default of hiding symlink
>> targets (setq dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets t), the targets
>> become visible when entering wdired (expected and really useful)
>> but they remain visible after exiting the mode with any of:
>> - wdired-abort-changes
>> - wdired-exit
>> - wdired-finish-edit
>> 
>> The only way to restore the previous look is to toggle
>> dired-hide-details-mode off and on so that symlink targets are
>> hidden again. I assume this is unexpected behaviour and hope this helps.
>
> Thank you for your report.
>
> To make the investigation of this issue easier, could you please post
> a step-by-step recipe for reproducing this starting from "emacs -Q"?

I can reproduce the problem:

0. emacs -Q
1. Visit a directory in Dired where you have write permission, e.g. /tmp
   and on some file line there, e.g. .X0-lock, type `S bla RET' to set
   the symlink "bla" to that file.  Now the directory has e.g. this
   entry:
   lrwxrwxrwx  1 steve steve     13 Feb 15 00:31 bla -> /tmp/.X0-lock
2. Type `(' to enable dired-hide-details-mode; now the previous entry
   looks like this:
   bla ->
3. Type `C-x C-q' to enter wdired-mode; now the previous entry looks
   like this:
   bla -> /tmp/.X0-lock
4. Type `C-x C-s' to return to dired-mode; the previous entry still
   looks like this
   bla -> /tmp/.X0-lock
   instead of like this:
   bla ->


With the patch below the result after step 4 is "bla ->".  But I haven't
tested it with any other case, so maybe it has unwanted consequences.

Steve Berman