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bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display |
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Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:07:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
On Aug 26 2021, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I wouldn't assume that a user who uses M on a symlink in Dired wants
>> to alter the file it points to. I think it is more likely that the
>> user did not realize it might do that. Suppose you operate on 10
>> files and one is a symlink -- you might not even have noticed that one
>> is as symlink.
>
> Yes, that's a good point. It's always ambiguous what the user really
> wants to do when doing operations on symlinks, and making Dired always
> "edit what's actually in the buffer" (i.e., the symlink itself) makes it
> less ambiguous (even if it might surprise people who expected Posix
> semantics).
But if the dired buffer was created with ls -L, shouldn't M follow
links?
Andreas.
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- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Michalis V., 2021/08/24
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/24
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Paul Eggert, 2021/08/24
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/25
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/08/26
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display,
Andreas Schwab <=
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Paul Eggert, 2021/08/26
- bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Richard Stallman, 2021/08/26
bug#11912: 24.1; 'M' in Dired on a symlink does not refresh the display, Michalis V., 2021/08/25