John Wiegley [2017-09-24 16:11:10-07] wrote:

>>>>>> "TL" == Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:
> TL> Dired mode command "Q" (dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace) fails
> TL> when user has deleted a directory in the same Emacs session. Steps
> TL> to reproduce:

> After you delete dir1, is there still a buffer open visiting the
> contents of file1?

No. Emacs is not visiting "file1". We can also add step 4.5 to do "U"
(dired-unmark-all-marks) and step 5.5 to manually kill "dir1" buffer but
it does not matter. The error is the same and the "Q" command
(dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace) doesn't work anymore in the same
Emacs session.