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28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy

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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 41097 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41097: 28.0.50; (dired-toggle-marks) not working after copy
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:05:57 +0200

Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com> [2020-05-06 17:05]:
>> Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:
>> 
>> > I have observed that after the copy of files from one window to another,
>> > the `t' for (dired-toggle-marks) is not working in that other window,
>> > where files are copied.
>> >
>> > If I kill the window, and enter into the directory again, than `t' for
>> > (dired-toggle-marks) starts working again.
>> >
>> > However, it is a bug.
>> 
>> I have 28.0.50 built on 27. april, and it works just fine for me. I use
>> Dired every day as my only file-manager. I just tested, and toggle
>> worked fine after copying a file between two directories (same drive and
>> partition). Marks on files are also preserved in other window after the
>> copy operation. I don't know if it helps.
>
> With emacs -Q open dired, make one empty directory in other window,
> mark file in first one, use C to copy to other, in the other window t
> does not work to toggle marked files.
>
> Jean

I didn what you said, but it worked fine for me.

One remark is that I don't see any pre-configured shortcut to use with
C-x 4 (operations on other window), so I created directory and switched
to other window. Besides that, I did what you said and it worked fine in
my Emacs started with -Q flag.

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