bug#81295: 32.0.50; dired-auto-toggle-b-switch problem with subdirectory
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> From: Filipp Gunbin <[email protected]> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:50:52 +0300 > > On 29/07/2026 15:32 +0200, Stephen Berman wrote: > > [...] > > > So that's the current situation, and why I've turned to you and Sean for > > a decision on how to proceed: (i) install my changes to handle file > > names with newlines in Dired subdirs, including the change that "fixes" > > the bug with `C-u i'; (ii) install the changes except for the one that > > "fixes" the `C-u i' bug, thus leaving that unfixed for now; (iii) wait > > for Filipp's alternative implementation, which will hopefully fix that > > bug without circumventing validation of subdir switches. > > As I wrote already, I do not object to (ii), we agree on that patch. I > object only to the fix of supposedly rare problem which we found in the > course of discussing this bug, and (i) additionally includes that fix. > We could create another bug report for that and see if anyone (me, or > you, or somebody else) comes up with the patch that we all agree with. > That is, (iii) is not an alternative to (ii) - we could install the > patch in (ii) right now, and that will fix the problem which I created > this bug about. Why not install (i) and _then_ wait for that one aspect to be fixed separately?