Re: dired without -l, wdired fails

[Andreas Röhler]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Setting it to pure `ls' or `ls -1' as Stefan suggested, works fine so far.
>> It's just, wdired doesn't work then any more.
> 
> If dired indeed works and wdired doesn't, then we indeed have a bug.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 

OK, filed as M-x report-emacs-bug suggested:

To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org

Subject: 23.1.90; wdired fails with dired ls -1

emacs -q

dired with option `ls -1'
wdired-change-to-wdired-mode

reports error:

wdired-preprocess-symlinks: Search failed: " -> \\(.*\\)$"

Mode-line displays "(Editable Dired...)"
but when I start editing, it's refused saying:

call-interactively: Text is read-only
...
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Andreas