From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: wdired bug with symlinks Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:15 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165688909 23153 80.91.229.10 (9 Dec 2006 18:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 09 19:28:29 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gt6vw-0004DK-4Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 19:28:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt6vv-0006x3-Lc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:28:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt6tt-0005kB-Ij for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt6ts-0005ik-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gt6ts-0005iW-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gt6ts-0005Ks-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Gt6tr-0006az-3x; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:26:15 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:63521 Archived-At: This bug in wdired will remain when Martin's change is installed: > One problem I found is that it allows me to edit the last space in the > " -> " string that indicates a symbolic link. > > If I have a symbolic link "a -> b" in the directory I'm editing, I can > delete the 2nd space, leaving "a ->b", and when I hit C-c C-c, I end > up with "a -> /dev/null". > > Doing a query replace of " " with "." when there are symlinks present > also replaces the " " which follows each "->". Would someone please fix that, then ack?