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

[Charles A. Roelli]

> From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 22:49:06 +0200
> 
> 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.

Neat.  Does M-x rgrep font-lock-extra-managed-props RET * RET
~/.emacs.d/elpa/ show anything interesting?