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   Of course you understand that I hope these things get implemented in
   emacs, otherwise they are just bytes in one ear and out the other for
   me, as I rarely save them as they breeze by.

In my opinion, that should be standard Emacs behaviour.  root should be
protected against writing its own read-only files justa as anyone else.

But anyway, why don't you put those four lines in your
/etc/emacs/default.el or ~root/.emacs?  I did the former.