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From: Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
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Subject: Re: dired error: invalid byte code
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:48:36 -0400
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Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>
>> For no obvious reason, my dired-create-directory function ceased to work
>> with this error: 
>>
>>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid byte code in
>>   /usr/share/emacs/23.2/lisp/dired-aux.elc")
>>   ...
>>   call-interactively(dired-create-directory nil nil)
>
> But most of the time, when I got such an error, restarting Emacs was
> enough.

That did the trick. Never occurred to me to do that because I've been
using emacs for years without ever having to restart to solve a
problem. Thanks.