Subject: bug#35609: 26.2; wdired-finish-edit clears find-dired listing

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 05:03:20 +0200

Alvaro Ramirez <[email-masked]> writes:

> Editing a find-dired buffer (via wdired) clears the list of files after
> saving changes.
>
> Steps:
>
> 1. M-x find-dired RET
> 2. RET (empty or any find args should do)
> 3. C-x C-q (dired-toggle-read-only)

In Emacs 27 (on GNU/Linux), it hangs there in

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
  looking-at("^. [0-9 \11]*[.,0-9]*[BkKMGTPEZY]?[ \11]*l[^:]")
  wdired-preprocess-symlinks()

So there's been further regressions in this area, I guess...

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