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28.0.50; Renaming a directory in dired doesn't update buffers visiting files within it

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From: Dale Sedivec <dale <at> codefu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 48461 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48461: 28.0.50; Renaming a directory in dired doesn't update buffers visiting files within it
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 16:56:07 -0500

On Jul 13, 2022, at 06:51, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
> 
> Dale Sedivec <dale <at> codefu.org> writes:
> 
>> If you rename a directory via dired, buffers within that directory will
>> not also have their paths updated with the new directory.
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
> 
> It looks like this was fixed in a patch series ending with:
> 
> commit e71c7a7c600bae3337de95d193dd106e9bfa2b4c
> Author:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon Apr 11 14:31:04 2022 +0300
> 
>    Fix default-directory of buffers visiting files in renamed directories
> 
> Do you still see this problem in the current Emacs tree?

Yes, I think this is now fixed.  Thank you to Eli for fixing it, and to you for following up.

Dale

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