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28.0.50; wdired-change-to-wdired-mode sometimes infloops

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 41624 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41624: 28.0.50; wdired-change-to-wdired-mode sometimes infloops
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:43:45 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> here is a recipe for emacs -Q:
>
> M-x find-dired ~/ RET -iname \*.pdf RET  (any find-dired buffer will do)
>
> M-: (setq wdired-allow-to-change-permissions 'advanced) RET
>
> M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode RET
>
>   ==> infloop

This bug is still present on the trunk, but I'm not quite sure whether
this is supposed to be supported or not?  The find-dired buffers aren't
very much like normal dired buffers...  so should wdired just signal an
error here?

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