bug#11795: 24.1.50; wdired: C-c C-c loses marks and positions of renamed files

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:

> > But shouldn't Wdired respect the user's setting of option
> > `dired-keep-marker-rename'?  IOW, shouldn't users be able to control
> > whether
> > exiting wdired removes marks?
>
> When `dired-keep-marker-rename' is customized to a character like ?R or ?M,
> now `wdired-finish-edit' adds a new marker on the files renamed by wdired.
> This is new behavior.  Strictly speaking, it is consistent with the meaning
> of `dired-keep-marker-rename', so I'm not sure if a new option is necessary
> to control this.  But at least when someone wants to put markers only on the
> files moved by `dired-do-rename', but not on the files renamed by wdired,
> this is still possible to do by adding to ~/.emacs something like:
>
>   (defadvice wdired-finish-edit (around my-wdired-finish-edit act)
>     (let ((dired-keep-marker-rename t))
>       ad-do-it))

I think you're right, some people may want to have a behavior different
than that defined by `dired-keep-marker-rename'.  And we should avoid
the necessity for users to use something nontrivial like `defadvice' to
control this.

So, introducing an new option `wdired-keep-marker-rename' would IMHO make
sense.  The default value could be t, at least that's what I think would
be most intuitive.


Michael.