bug#63676: cancelling editable dired causes UI problems with dired

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hello Michael,

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> When I'm in the middle of a complex renaming operation using wdired, I
> might have done some preparations before entering wdired, like killing
> some unrelated lines so that it's simpler to use rectangle commands on
> the rest (to rename a "block" of files).  When aborting reverts the
> buffer (Say, I made a mistake ans lost orientation), I now have to do
> the preparations again.  This is not helpful.

You could avoid such problem by creating a dired buffer with _only_ the
files you want to modify (helm allows this), then switch to wdired-mode
and do your modifications.
Probably implementing this in dired (i.e. open a new dired buffer with
only marked files) would be a good addition.

Note: Only Emacs-30 (see commit 66040fbeed2) allow this,
Emacs-28 dired doesn't support a list of files.

-- 
Thierry