bug#12394: 24.2.50; wdired: error when wdired-use-interactive-rename is non-nil

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> when you have set `wdired-use-interactive-rename' to non-nil, and you
> add something to the front of a filename when in wdired-mode, you get
> an error after hitting C-c C-c.  Here is a recipe for emacs -Q:
>
> - dired a directory where you are allowed to change file names
> - M-: (progn (require 'wdired) (setq wdired-use-interactive-rename t)) RET
> - M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
> - go to any file
> - prepend any string to its name
> - C-c C-c
>
> This will fail either with an error, or an attempt to rename a
> non-existent file (whose name is a substring of the file you actually
> wanted to rename).

I'm unable to reproduce this bug on the master, so I'm going to go ahead
and guess that it's been fixed at some point in the eight years since
this was reported.  If the bug still exists, please respond to the
debbugs address, and we'll reopen.

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