bug#23977: 25.0.95; 'Show hidden files' option in Open File dialog gets out of sync

bug#23977: 25.0.95; 'Show hidden files' option in Open File dialog gets out of sync

[Jan Synáček]

Steps to reproduce:
1) emacs -Q
2) In the menu, click 'File -> Open File'
3) Check the 'Show hidden files' option.
4) Quit emacs.
5) Repeat steps 1) and 2).

Now, the hidden files are visible, but the option is unchecked.



In GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.20.6)
 of 2016-06-13 built on jsynacek-ntb
Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11803000
System Description:	Fedora release 24 (Twenty Four)

Configured using:
 'configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
 --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
 --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
 --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
 --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
 --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png
 --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
 --with-gpm=no --with-xwidgets build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
 host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g
 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
 -m64 -mtune=generic' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY
ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XWIDGETS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

-- 
Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat

bug#23977: 25.0.95; 'Show hidden files' option in Open File dialog gets out of sync

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

jsynacek@redhat.com (Jan Synáček) writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) emacs -Q
> 2) In the menu, click 'File -> Open File'
> 3) Check the 'Show hidden files' option.
> 4) Quit emacs.
> 5) Repeat steps 1) and 2).
>
> Now, the hidden files are visible, but the option is unchecked.

(I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that haven't received any
response.)

Confirmed.

I think I've now fixed this bug in Emacs 27.

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