bug#15508: 24.3.50; file missing in dired

[Alexis]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@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.