GNU bug report logs - #61510
28.2; dired-hide-details-mode shows symlink targets after entering and exiting wdired

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Message #8 received at 61510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Iñaki Cornejo de la Mora <cornejodlm <at> ciencias.unam.mx>
Cc: 61510 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61510: 28.2;
 dired-hide-details-mode shows symlink targets after entering and
 exiting wdired
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 19:10:16 +0200

> From: Iñaki Cornejo de la Mora <cornejodlm <at> ciencias.unam.mx>
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:16:52 -0600
> 
> When using dired-hide-details-mode with the default of hiding symlink
> targets (setq dired-hide-details-hide-symlink-targets t), the targets
> become visible when entering wdired (expected and really useful)
> but they remain visible after exiting the mode with any of:
> - wdired-abort-changes
> - wdired-exit
> - wdired-finish-edit
> 
> The only way to restore the previous look is to toggle
> dired-hide-details-mode off and on so that symlink targets are
> hidden again. I assume this is unexpected behaviour and hope this helps.

Thank you for your report.

To make the investigation of this issue easier, could you please post
a step-by-step recipe for reproducing this starting from "emacs -Q"?

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