2011-12-14 05:27 Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>:
| On 12/13/2011 9:54 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
| >> The code I'm talking about is near the beginning of the definition of
| >> basic-save-buffer-2' in files.el:
| >
| > I'm not sure what was the intention, but I know that this code is
| > triggered in cases such as:
|   [snip]
|
| (... and) saving to a file that is in fact writable, for which
| file-writable-p gives the wrong answer.
| 
| > This said, the code you quote should never prevent you from saving
| > a file, it should only ask for confirmation (i.e. it might be annoying
| > but it shouldn't prevent you from getting your work done).

For occasional confirmation, this is acceptable. But in this case every
single save is prompted while I know I have a write access. The protective
prompting turned into nightmare.

I'm proposing following,
Jari

2011-12-14  Jari Aalto  <jari.aalto@cante.net>

        * files.el (basic-save-buffer-2): Add
        `save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag' to control asking to a
        write-protected file.
        (save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag): New user variable
        (bug#10257).