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30.0.50; Dired: buffers of renamed dirs are broken

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: "70593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <70593 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 "Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
 editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: bug#70593: 30.0.50; Dired: buffers of renamed
 dirs are broken
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.

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