Re: "M-x locate" regression

[Nick Roberts]

 > >   These buffers don't work entirely like ordinary Dired buffers.  File
 > > operations work, but do not always automatically update the buffer.

A similar regression exists for find-dired (and presumably find-grep-dired)
but for a different reason.  This command uses dired-mode and the buffer
updates properly if dired-buffers is not let bound:

1998-06-27  Richard Stallman  <address@hidden>

        * find-dired.el (find-dired): Bind dired-buffers so it can't change.
        Use abbreviate-file-name.

Can anyone say why this is was needed and if its still necessary?

Nick