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25.0.50; Dired buffers are not always auto-reverterd

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Message #77 received at 20943 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Mark Karpov <markkarpov <at> openmailbox.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 20943 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20943: 25.0.50; Dired buffers are not always auto-reverterd
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:20:56 +0200

Mark Karpov <markkarpov <at> openmailbox.org> writes:

> When I copy some files or create files, they are placed by Dired in
> different positions than they would be placed normally (via ls call or
> whatever Emacs uses internally). This is a separate problem, because of
> this, I had to press ‘g’ in such cases, so every file gets in its proper
> position. 
>
> What I propose is to make sure that copied/created/added to current
> directory by other means files are in the same positions as they would
> be displayed by ls command (or whatever Emacs uses), so when user
> presses ‘g’ order of files doesn't change.

This is a feature of dired. It doesn't want to regenerate the whole
dired buffer; instead it adds the new entry at the position the cursor
is pointing to. This is because reverting the dired buffer could be
expensive. Think about a remote directory, think about many inserted
subdirectories.

Good or bad, if we want to change this behavour we would need a customer
option which would trigger the regeneration of the dired buffer
automatically.

Best regards, Michael.

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