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24.3.50; file missing in dired

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From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 15508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#15508: 24.3.50; file missing in dired
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 12:37:31 +1100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> 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.

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