Re: [Patch] Behavior of dired when there already is a dired buffer of the same directory

[David House]

2008/9/1 Mathias Dahl <address@hidden>:
> Another case against it, maybe even a better one: If you are, like me,
> using the toggle and kill commands in Dired buffers, maybe together
> with % m and % g, you would be really angry if you lost a surgically
> selected batch of files because the buffer was refreshed.

I see no reason to lose marks on a buffer refresh, unless you marked a
file which no longer exists (which is presumably the right thing to do
anyway, since you can't do anything with that file).

-- 
-David