Re: Possible regression in dired when renaming directories

[Nicolas Martyanoff <khaelin@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I cannot reproduce this.  I tried R in Dired, and Emacs 28.1 works the
> same as 27.2 here.
>
> Can you provide a complete recipe starting from "emacs -Q" to
> reproduce the problem?

Running emacs -Q:

- C-x C-f /tmp/dir1/file

- C-x C-s
  Answer 'y' to the prompt to create the directory. At this point the
  buffer 'file' visits /tmp/dir1/file, and the file exists on the disk.

- Run dired in /tmp.

- Rename /tmp/dir1 into /tmp/dir2, e.g. using 'R'.

- Switch to the 'file' buffer. It still visits /tmp/dir1/file even
  though the file is now located in /tmp/dir2.

- Additional test: running C-x C-s in the 'file' buffer will ask again
  to create /tmp/dir1, which is normal since the directory has been
  renamed to /tmp/dir2.

Regards,

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