From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spiegel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC, read-only buffers for writable files
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:54:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E184lFR-0005dn-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210230739.g9N7dex06199@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
Sorry that should have been `buffer'.
> better that way for the user. More specifically, it makes it read-only
> if the file seems to be locked by another user.
>
> Under RCS, the file is read-only whenever the file is not locked by you.
> I think that is the right way to handle it.
I also meant `buffer'.
If the file is indeed read-only, then everything works as expected,
but the VC code also tries to make the buffer read-only when the file
is locked by someone else and yet is writable.
I think that is correct--and useful. If VC is mistaken, you can use
C-x C-q to make the buffer writable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-24 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 13:31 VC, read-only buffers for writable files Stefan Monnier
2002-10-22 14:35 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-10-22 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-23 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-23 7:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-24 16:54 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-10-24 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
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