bug#11795: 24.1.50; wdired: C-c C-c loses marks and positions of renamed files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> a short demonstration for emacs -Q:
>
> 1. M-x dired a directory containing some files
>
> 2. Go to the first file's line (not "." or ".."), and mark the file
> with m
>
> 3. M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
>
> 4. Edit the name of the first file: e.g. add a "z" to the front of the
>    name so that the file will surely appear at another position after
>    renaming
>
> 5. C-c C-c
>
> You'll see that point is still at the first file's line, although the
> renamed file is now displayed near the end of the buffer.  Even worse,
> the mark of the file has disappeared.

A long discussion then followed, which I've only skimmed.  The bug
itself was fixed at the time, though, so I'm closing this bug report.
If there's anything further to be done in this area, a new bug report
could perhaps be opened.

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