RE: Wdired doesn't support flush-matching-lines; gets "Text is read only"

[Klotz, Leigh]

> From: Juri Linkov [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Wdired doesn't support flush-matching-lines; gets "Text is read 
> only"
> 
> > In Emacs 22 I was able to use toggle-read-only followed by 
> > flush-matching-lines to filter viewed files.
> Please note that it's dangerous to delete lines in Wdired-mode, because it 
> might interpret deleting lines as an order to delete files!

I don't want that!

> > Alternatively, is there another way to satisfy my use case of using a 
> > regular expression and individual hides to filter files from dired 
> > view?

> This is easy.  You can mark files by a regexp and type `k' to delete the 
> lines of the marked files.  See also (info "(emacs) Dired Updating").

That's what I want.  

Thank you,

Leigh.