bug#34915: 27.0.50; Wdired regression with ls -F

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

tags 34915 fixed
close 34915
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Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 14:56:57 +0100 "Basil L. Contovounesios" 
> <contovob@tcd.ie> wrote:
>
>> Thanks.  I noticed an opportunity for a tiny bit of reuse:
> [...]
>
> I'm not sure the two uses justify a new function, but I don't oppose
> it.

I'll leave it for now.

>> Which makes me wonder: is there no Dired function that
>> wdired--restore-dired-filename-prop can reuse for finding the boundaries
>> of a file name?  Is dired-move-to-end-of-filename not suitable?  It
>> seems to perform similar checks for symlinks and --classify.
>
> dired-move-to-end-of-filename doesn't work in wdired-mode because the
> dired-filename text property it uses was removed to fix bug#32173, and
> wdired--restore-dired-filename-prop was added to compensate.  I couldn't
> come up with a more elegant solution.

Thanks for explaining and for working on this.  Since your patch fixed
the bug, I'm closing this report.

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Basil