Subject: Re: bug#15508: 24.3.50; file missing in dired

From: Alexis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:37:31 +1100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> In my dired buffer on the whole directory `outgoing', the lock 
>> file `.#out-3' does not appear.  I typed g a couple of times, 
>> and that file continues not to show up.
>>
>> `ls -a' does show it.
>
> Are you still having these issues?  I can't recall seeing 
> anybody else describing a problem like this...

i faced what i believe to be a similar problem, which was caused 
by the default value of the `dired-omit-files' variable:

    "^\\.?#\\|^\\.$\\|^\\.\\.$"

Changing the value of that variable to:

    "^\\.\\|^#"

resulted in dired displaying things as i expect.

Alexis.