Re: dired-hide-details-mode have no effect suddenly

[Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>]

Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> writes:

> "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch> writes:
>
>> I had the same issue once.  I had mistakenly added to the global value
>> of the variable 'font-lock-extra-managed-props' in some of my own code
>> for a buffer-local minor mode, instead of making the variable
>> buffer-local.  That resulted in dired-hide-details-mode breaking (and
>> a month's worth of confusion).
>
> Ok, my value is nil of that variable in dired, will check it when I get
> the problem next time, thanks. But I never touched that variable as far
> as I am aware.

And now suddenly...

font-lock-extra-managed-props is a variable defined in ‘font-lock.el’.
Its value is (invisible composition)

... and problem is back. Who has changed it I don't know. I know that it
has happened around doing some magit.

Cool, resetting that variable to nil removes the problem. But still,
hmm, ehh.