Subject: Re: bug#13152: 24.2.90; [REGRESSION] dired-get-marked-files changed

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:27:05 -0500

Leo Liu wrote:

> On 2013-01-07 10:38 +0800, Leo Liu wrote:
>> Eval (dired-get-marked-files t current-prefix-arg) in non dired buffers
>> threw an error in the released emacsen, which is a more reasonable thing
>> to do.
>>
>> In the pretest it returns (nil).
>
> The incompatibility is introduced by this change:
>
> Author: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Wed Sep 19 23:09:55 2012 +0300
>
>     * lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-diff): Add (require 'diff) because
>     `diff-latest-backup-file' is not autoloaded.
>     (dired-do-chxxx, dired-do-chmod): Set `no-error-if-not-filep' arg
>     of `dired-get-filename' to t to not report error when there is
>     no default file on the current line.

How can a commit that did not touch dired-get-marked-files, or any code
called by it, possibly have changed the behaviour of
dired-get-marked-files?

Presumably you mean this change

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2012-10/msg00382.html

http://debbugs.gnu.org/12725