Re: What happened to wdired.el?

[Juri Linkov]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     The user can forget to call dired-execute later.  But what about
>     C-x C-q asking yes/no question about accepting the changes,
>     and an option to disable such a question?
>
> What are the changes in question, and why would they be lost?

wdired provides one user-level function `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode'
to start editing the file names and two functions to exit wdired-mode:
`wdired-finish-edit' and `wdired-abort-changes' with the former
committing the changes and the latter aborting them.  Both return
wdired to dired mode.

I proposed to add one user-level function which depending on the
user's answer to the question about accepting changes would call
either `wdired-finish-edit' or `wdired-abort-changes'.  And an option
which will allow to assume that the user always wants to accept the
changes by answering `yes' and calling `wdired-finish-edit'.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/