Re: Partial wdired (edit just filename at the point)

[Michael Heerdegen]

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net> writes:

> Normally one can pass a list of files with absolute path to dired to get
> a dired buffer with only the needed file names to possibly edit with
> wdired, however this is broken in Emacs since ages; Helm is fixing this
> by advice, see
> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/master/helm-lib.el#L186.
> This allow selecting files from helm-find-files and switching to a dired
> buffer with only those files.

I think something like this should definitely be offered by dired.

Michael.