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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:02:07 -0500

Juri Linkov wrote:

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

Then why does no other part of Emacs set dired-directory, except for
dired itself? Eg M-x shell does not. It has no effect on M-x dired. I
imagine setting default-directory after cd does all that is necessary.

Since this is ancient code from the very first version of eshell,
personally I suspect it is simply a mistake.