Subject: bug#71264: 30.0.50; Dired deletion moves point under auto-revert

From: Manuel Giraud <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 11:29:29 +0200

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-: (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'auto-revert-mode) RET
> 2. M-: (require 'dired-x) RET
> 3. C-x d /tmp RET
> 4. C-x C-f foo RET C-x C-s C-x C-j
> 5. d x yes RET y
>
> Point is now at BOB instead of the line from which the file was deleted.
> Both steps 1 and 2 are needed to reproduce.
> Emacs 24.5 does not reproduce; 25.3 and 26.3 behave like 30.

Hi Basil,

I confirm the behaviour you observe on master.  I'm trying to track this
down and it seems to come from the dired clean-up after a deletion.

Customizing `dired-clean-up-buffers-too' to nil, fixes this issue for
me.  Do you see the same?
-- 
Manuel Giraud