[Bug: 21.5-b28] Problem with dired (C-x d)

[Mats Lidell]

Michael Sperber writes:
> Very odd: It seems it's trying to insert the directory list into
> the *Buffer List* buffer.

This sounds like the same problem I have been seeing for years:

"http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-May/009236.html"

The idea that font locking could be involved let me then to go back to 
good old slow font locking and by that I manage to keep the problem 
away. But it resurfaced again a few months, maybe even half a year, ago. 
So I guess the bug it is lurking inside somewhere.

> Could you trace the `dired-find-buffer-nocreate' function when it
> happens, reproduce the problem, and post the output?  I.e.
> 
> M-x trace-function-backgroud RET
> dired-find-buffer-nocreate RET
> RET
> 
> and then post the contents of *trace-output*?

I'll try this as well but from my experience when the problem occurs you 
are smoked. Trying the operation again does not reveal that much since 
the situation is different. And the dired buffer is definitely not right 
so you need to look out for other errors caused by that fact. Maybe 
deleting the dired buffer and retrying the operation is worth a try if 
the other way doesn't work out right.

Yours
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%% Mats