Re: dired and wdired problems

> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:25:11 +0530
> From: Madhu via "Emacs development discussions." <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> The current dired behaviour on master when reading a wildcard which
> doesn't exist is thus:
> 
> mkdir /tmp/a
> emacs -Q /tmp/a
> 
>   - this starts up with dired with a single window showing the empty
>     directory /tmp/a
> 
> M-x dired /tmp/a/*nonexist* RET
> 
> This results in two windows, and shows *scratch* in the top window and
> *ls error* in the bottom window. now repeat the same command:
> 
> M-x dired /tmp/a/*nonexist* RET
> 
> This switches the buffer in the top window to show `/tmp/a' again
> 
> The behaviour I expect is that if dired cannot display the directory it
> shouln't switch the buffer currently being displayed.  What do you
> think?

Stephen, please look into this, it sounds like some fallout from
recent Dired changes.