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26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename'

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Message #17 received at 32173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 32173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, enrico.scholz <at> ensc.de
Subject: Re: bug#32173: 26.1; wdired: broken 'wdired-use-interactive-rename'
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:06:19 +0300

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
> Cc: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz <at> ensc.de>,  32173 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:48:57 +0200
> 
> AFAICT this patch avoids the bug and is simpler than the fix I proposed
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2018-07/msg00602.html).
> But with the above patch, if the user types C-g when prompted to make
> the replacement, the file name is left partly or wholely without the
> dired-filename text property.  I'm not sure if that's a problem, that's
> why in my patch I restored the property.  I note the current buggy code
> has the same issue.

Right.  But I think we had better did this more thoroughly, so I think
your solution (which I somehow managed to miss) is better.  Please
wait for a few days and push to emacs-26 if no problems are reported
with your patch.

Thanks.

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