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

[Mats Lidell]

Thomas Mittelstaedt writes:
> Again have trouble acessing a directory:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "dired-subdir-alist seems to be 
> mangled")

This, I think, indicates that the dired buffer doesn't contain what 
dired though it should. From my experience that data has been inserted 
into some other buffer.  This can be a number of leading spaces in the 
first few columns of a buffer, sometimes even the first dired buffer 
line as well. Look around in your other buffers for evidence of this kind.

So the damage is already done when the mangled sublist problem is observed.

I produced this once in an attempt to track this done. After that I 
dropped lazy-lock. It has helped in reducing the number of errors 
considerably, but as I said, it resurfaced again for some months ago.

    "http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-May/009281.html"

Yours
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%% Mats