GNU bug report logs - #27968
26.0.50; dired-revert: Saved positions might change if a dired header changes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 13:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 27968-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: 27968-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27968: 26.0.50;
 dired-revert: Saved positions might change if a dired header changes
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:15:28 +0900

Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> One possible solution is the patch below.  It saves line numbers
>>> instead of positions.  Line numbers won't change if a dired header
>>> changes its length.
>>
>> Won't using markers be a better solution?
> Yes, but `dired-revert' erases the buffer when calls
> `dired-readin', so that the markers will be gone,
*) I really want to have buildboot clean again
   (http://emacs.bioswarm.net:8010/#/), in order to this tool
   be effective to catch new problems.

*) so i pushed a fix in master branch as commit
7c3593f81724d0c7a2ee2f90797db0e705adc859
(dired-revert: save line numbers instead of positions)
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