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From: | Juri Linkov |
Subject: | bug#57293: 29.0.50; query-replace with Wdired skips symlink target |
Date: | Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:52:51 +0300 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> 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. Maybe then it's possible to add a new text property on symlink file names? Then query-replace could check for two text properties: 'dired-filename' and 'dired-symlink-filename'.
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