Subject: bug#70593: 30.0.50; Dired: buffers of renamed dirs are broken

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 18:32:33 +0000

> > But note this comment in the code for
> > `dired-internal-noselect' (in dired.el):
> >
> > ;; We can do this unconditionally
> > ;; because dired-noselect ensures that the name
> > ;; is passed in directory name syntax
> > ;; if it was the name of a directory at all.
> >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Hmm - but this this could also speak about
> the wildcard case.

Yes, maybe so.  In any case, it alone isn't
proof of an expectation that the car can be
an arbitrary string.