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27.0.50; dired loses position when reverted from outside place

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 33458 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33458: 27.0.50;
 dired loses position when reverted from outside place
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:58:21 +0100

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> Unfortunately, now Dired fails to visit a directory:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>    file-name-absolute-p(nil)
>    dired-goto-file(nil)
>    dired-restore-positions(((#<buffer /tmp/> nil 3) nil ((#<marker at 1 in /tmp/> nil 3))))
>    dired-revert(nil nil)
>    revert-buffer()
>    dired-internal-noselect("/tmp/" nil)
>    dired-noselect("/tmp/" nil)
>    dired("/tmp/")
>    dired-jump(nil nil)
>    funcall-interactively(dired-jump nil nil)
>    call-interactively(dired-jump nil nil)
>    command-execute(dired-jump)
>
> Maybe this happens when a reverted directory window is restored
> from a window configuration, so point-marker is at 1,
> and (dired-get-filename nil t) returns nil in `dired-save-positions'.

Looks like a silly typo.  Please try the attached patch.  If it does
not help, please provide me a simple scenario to reproduce the bug.

Thanks, martin

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