Subject: bug#16477: 24.3.50; [saveplace] symbol's function defn is void: dired-get-filename

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:52:57 +0200

>> `eshell' sets the variable `dired-directory'
>
> Why does it do that?

Maybe some external packages rely on it to implement
closer integration with dired?