Bug 432101

Could you test with the latest experimental upstream dired package?

$ mkdir -p ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages
$ cd ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages
$ wget http://ftp.xemacs.org/beta/experimental/packages/dired-1.19-pkg.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf dired-1.19-pkg.tar.gz

...and restart XEmacs, and see if you can still reproduce this?  Doing this will
cause some lisp load path shadows, but I believe they'd be pretty much harmless.

If needed, you can get rid of the above local test setup just by removing all
the files extracted from the tarball.

I installed it as directed, but I can't tell you if it fixed the original bug,
because the newer dired was basically unusable.

- Hitting enter while on top of a directory did not descend into the director
(reported that buffer 'dirname' was read-only)

- hitting 's' to resort by date would actually change to a different dired
buffer, etc

I gave up after that and deleted the new stuff.

I cannot reproduce either of the problems in comment 2, the new dired seems to
work just fine for me (Enter descends, s sorts by date just fine without opening
new buffers or anything out of the ordinary).

Did you try the new dired with your existing init/custom files, or with clean ones?

Anyway, I've forwarded both issues from comments 1 and 2 upstream.

Without my stuff (mv .emacs .xemacs* /tmp). I've reverted to f7 rpms, which work
fine, even with my init/custom files.

xemacs-packages-extra-20061221-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
xemacs-packages-base-20061221-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
xemacs-packages-extra-20061221-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
xemacs-21.5.28-3.fc7.ppc.rpm

I also tried the new dired on my test i386 machine (with f8 rpms), and have a
little more information. If I start a single window, it seems to work fine.
However, try this:

-$ mkdir -p /tmp/xemacs/a /tmp/xemacs/b
-$ xemacs /tmp/xemacs
-create a second window: C-x-5-2
-now try enter to descend into a or b in either window. I get 'Buffer is read-only'.

Without the C-x-5-2 dired works fine.

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