From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: grep.txt read-only Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:26:02 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151587679 6325 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2006 13:27:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:27:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 29 15:27:58 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwYl-0000yJ-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwYk-00040G-W7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwYJ-0003pG-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwYH-0003nt-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwYH-0003nh-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fvwkq-0008B4-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FvwXz-0000pk-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:27:07 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:27:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56291 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > What is the purpose of making grep.txt set buffer-read-only? > It is a very strange thing to do. etc/grep.txt itself says: * Introduction -*-grep-*- ... Please do not edit this file in grep-mode, it may lose escape sequences on saving. Visit this file literally for editing. -- Kevin