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

[Michael Heerdegen]

> > I must say that I'm a bit reluctant to force a revert in other buffers.
> > Because some aspects of the these buffers may be lost that maybe were
> > important for the user - like killed files (they reappear when
> > reverting) or any marks (e.g. belonging to positions stored in a
> > register).  That's why I tried to avoid reverting.
>
> Not reverting means a lot of trouble.  For example, you have to detect
> the situation when a file is in the killed state, so not to add its
> renamed file line to the Dired buffer in this case, etc.

Agreed.

> A less error-prone approach would be to allow a revert to avoid
> all these nuances.

Ok.  So, do you want to write a patch to implement this?


Thanks,

Michael.