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bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename'
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename' |
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Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:09:25 +0300 |
> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: enrico.scholz@ensc.de, 32173@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 01:38:44 +0200
>
> > Btw, what happens in the non-interactive rename case, wrt the
> > dired-filename property? If the renamed file is left with part of it
> > covered by that property, we may have a broader problem in wdired.el.
>
> That's a good question (which didn't occur to me). With
> wdired-use-interactive-rename nil (the default), a partially edited
> filename is indeed only partly covered by the dired-filename property,
> but as soon as you type C-c C-c or C-x C-s the change is saved and the
> buffer returns to dired-mode, which makes the whole file name
> propertized again. So that's no problem. However, there could be a
> problem before saving the change if some function looks for the
> dired-filename property -- and in fact, there is such a function:
> dired-isearch-filenames in dired-aux.el. And indeed, you can use this
> in wdired-mode after editing file names but before saving the changes,
> and then the search will fail if the search string includes characters
> now lacking the dired-filename property.
>
> The only way I could think of to avoid this is to restore the text
> property via after-change-functions, as in the patch below. I'm not so
> confident that this is the best approach, but it seems to work, in that
> AFAICT it fixes the bug with non-nil wdired-use-interactive-rename and
> also handles the non-interactive case, allowing dired-isearch-filenames
> to function as expected. Maybe there's a less heavy-handed way to get
> this, but none has occurred to me.
>
> It was also necessary to move the invocation of
> wdired-change-to-dired-mode in wdired-finish-edit to after the
> invocation of wdired-do-renames, since calling it before meant the
> buffer was in dired-mode, which doesn't use the after change function,
> so typing C-g on being prompted to accept the change would have left a
> partially unpropertized file name. (The invocation of
> wdired-change-to-dired-mode also has to be before the invocation of
> revert-buffer in wdired-finish-edit to avoid using wdired-revert, which
> changes to dired-mode and then back to wdired-mode.)
>
> Finally, a consequence of moving wdired-change-to-dired-mode is that
> with typing C-g with non-nil wdired-use-interactive-rename leaves the
> buffer in wdired-mode, instead of returning to dired-mode as it
> currently does. To keep the current behavior I wrapped an extra call to
> wdired-change-to-dired-mode in unwind-protect in
> wdired-search-and-rename.
Thanks. I think we should install your original and safer patch on
the release branch, and this more thorough fix on master. WDYT?
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Enrico Scholz, 2018/07/16
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/18
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/20
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/21
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/21
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/21
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/21
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/26
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/26
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename',
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/27
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/27
- bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename', Stephen Berman, 2018/07/28