Hi Lars,
Sorry, the attachment is the "dribble-file" from an "emacs -Q" session. Since it's mentioned in the Emacs manual (section 52.4), I thought it would be useful! Here's the same recipe in straight text:
1. emacs -Q
2. "C-x d ~/" open home directory
3. navigate to any subdirectory (eg, ".emacs.d")
4. "i" insert the subdirectory at point
5. "$" hide the subdir
6. "C-x C-q" attempt to put dired buffer into writable mode. This will fail with message "Buffer is read-only"
7. "$" unhide the subdir
8. "C-x C-q" new attempt to put dired buffer into writable mode. This works as expected
9. "C-c C-k" exit writable dired mode.
Peter