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: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:09 -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 1166334058 29716 80.91.229.10 (17 Dec 2006 05:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 17 06:40:58 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 1Gvold-0002wq-F0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gvolc-000190-Po for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gvoix-0007yP-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gvoiw-0007xl-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gvoiw-0007xN-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gvoiw-0002Ov-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Gvoiv-0006N8-CI; Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:38:09 -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:63877 Archived-At: [I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.] 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?