[I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.]
This bug in wdired will remain when Martin's change is installed:
> One problem I found is that it allows me to edit the last space in the
> " -> " string that indicates a symbolic link.
>
> If I have a symbolic link "a -> b" in the directory I'm editing, I can
> delete the 2nd space, leaving "a ->b", and when I hit C-c C-c, I end
> up with "a -> /dev/null".
>
> Doing a query replace of " " with "." when there are symlinks present
> also replaces the " " which follows each "->".
Would someone please fix that, then ack?