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

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Hi Thierry,
>
>> > With Dired+ you can create a Dired buffer for any
>> > arbitrary list of files & dirs, even interactively,
>> > in several ways.  Such a buffer isn't connected
>> > with any particular directory listings (whether by
>> > `ls' or ls-lisp).
>> >
>> > E.g., commands `diredp-marked(-other-window)' do
>> > it for the marked files & dirs in a Dired buffer.
>> > (`C-M-*' is bound to `diredp-marked-other-window'.)
>> >
>> > You can then use WDired on such buffer, to make any
>> > changes you like.
>> >
>> > Dired+ hasn't tried to fix any WDired problems, so
>> > some WDired problems that you pointed to might
>> > still be problematic with Dired+; dunno.
>> 
>> Should work fine with emacs-29+ and broken before (needed a patched
>> Wdired).
>
> What is it that should work fine with 29+ but was broken before?

A dired buffer in wdired-mode composed of a list of absolute filenames.

-- 
Thierry

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