bug#57293: 29.0.50; query-replace with Wdired skips symlink target

[Michael Heerdegen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> So if "foo" in "bar -> foo" had the text property 'dired-filename',
> query-replace would visit it as well.
>
> But wouldn't such change break some other commands?

That property plays a central role in dired buffers, I would be
surprised if nothing would break.  Even third party code might rely on
the current placement.

I would rather try to generalize the query-replace semantics further,
even when that might be a harder task.

Michael.