martin rudalics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's something screwy about word boundries in wdired mode. Say I > > have the following files in a directory: > > > > FOO.EXT > > BAR.EXT > > BAZ.EXT > > > > If I try to downcase them by placing point on F and hitting "M-l" a > > number of times, then I end up with this: > > > > foo.ext > > BAR.ext > > BAZ.ext > > > > The first two M-l work as expected, but the next two skips over BAR and > > BAZ respectively. > > The patch below should work around this but the bug is inherently with > `operate_on_word': When you have a buffer line like > > FOO.TXT > > with point-at-bol and the space before FOO is read-only, `downcase-word' > will fail to downcase FOO even if it's not read-only. > > In principle, `operate_on_word' should skip any non-word syntax first > before attempting to downcase the following word. Unfortunately, Emacs > misses a cheap `forward-nonword' primitive, (skip-syntax-forward "^w") > is a poor substitute. > > *** wdired.el.~1.22.~ Sat Dec 9 22:30:12 2006 > --- wdired.el Fri Jan 5 18:22:44 2007 > *************** > *** 576,583 **** > (funcall command 1) > (setq arg (1- arg))) > (error > ! (if (not (forward-word 1)) > ! (setq arg 0))))))) > > (defun wdired-downcase-word (arg) > "WDired version of `downcase-word'. > --- 576,584 ---- > (funcall command 1) > (setq arg (1- arg))) > (error > ! (if (forward-word) > ! (skip-syntax-forward "^w") > ! (setq arg 0))))))) > > (defun wdired-downcase-word (arg) > "WDired version of `downcase-word'.
This does indeed fix it. I suggest it be installed even if it's somewhat suboptimal. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
