From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
"peter.mao@gmail.com" <peter.mao@gmail.com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
"63676@debbugs.gnu.org" <63676@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#63676: cancelling editable dired causes UI problems with dired
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 09:43:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzwreab5.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488840E766D932E51685A37F34A9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> >> > With Dired+ you can create a Dired buffer for any
>> >> > arbitrary list of files & dirs, even interactively,
>> >> > in several ways. Such a buffer isn't connected
>> >> > with any particular directory listings (whether by
>> >> > `ls' or ls-lisp).
>> >> >
>> >> > E.g., commands `diredp-marked(-other-window)' do
>> >> > it for the marked files & dirs in a Dired buffer.
>> >> > (`C-M-*' is bound to `diredp-marked-other-window'.)
>> >> >
>> >> > You can then use WDired on such buffer, to make any
>> >> > changes you like.
>> >> >
>> >> > Dired+ hasn't tried to fix any WDired problems, so
>> >> > some WDired problems that you pointed to might
>> >> > still be problematic with Dired+; dunno.
>> >>
>> >> Should work fine with emacs-29+ and broken before (needed a patched
>> >> Wdired).
>> >
>> > What is it that should work fine with 29+ but was broken before?
>>
>> A dired buffer in wdired-mode composed of a list of absolute filenames.
>
> I see. Did you maybe mean "arbitrary" instead of
> "absolute"?
Absolute, but it is not really important, try both:
(dired '("~/tmp" "/home/you/tmp/foo.txt" "/home/you/tmp/bar.txt" "/home/you/tmp/baz.txt"))
(dired '("~/tmp" "foo.txt" "bar.txt" "baz.txt"))
Then edit a filename with wdired and see the error in 28.2 and not in 29+.
> I guess maybe you're saying that WDired didn't work with arbitrary
> file-name listings before Emacs 29?
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Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-29 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-24 4:51 bug#63676: cancelling editable dired causes UI problems with dired Peter Mao
2023-05-24 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-24 12:09 ` Stephen Berman
2023-05-25 1:14 ` Peter Mao
2023-05-26 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-26 23:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27 0:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27 2:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-27 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-28 1:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 4:09 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-28 5:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 5:08 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-28 16:04 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28 16:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-28 19:17 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-29 3:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2023-05-29 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-29 9:43 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2023-05-29 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28 16:05 ` Drew Adams
2023-05-28 3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-29 1:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
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