Re: excessive [?\C-x ?[] and [?\C-x ?]] paging needed in emacs dired-x buffers

[Gerd Moellmann]

I think this must be something in insert-directory, maybe the part
that's done with `df' at the end of that function.  Can you Edebug
that function for some arbitrary directory, say 

  `(insert-directory "/tmp" "-al")

and see where that extra newline comes from?