[Bug: 21.5-b29] xemacs aborts while trying to open a file via Ctrl-4 f

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an séú lá déag de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Thomas Mittelstaedt: 

 > I don't know if it's connected to the problem, but dired 1.2 17.7 (the
 > latest) seems to have problems with backup files.

I’ve just committed a changeset, cdca98f2d36f, which addresses a bug I
introduced into our directory handling. It doesn’t look like your error is
directly related to my bug, but it is possible; could you try to reproduce
with a current build? 

Best, 

Aidan

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