From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: opening files result in read-only buffers Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:56:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1184201794.726274.93060@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: <5fl1iaF3diaolU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184204443 9902 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2007 01:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 12 03:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8nfa-0000gb-Pe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8nfa-0007FI-3Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:40:38 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 189.6.212.239 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1184201794 25386 127.0.0.1 (12 Jul 2007 00:56:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:56:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <5fl1iaF3diaolU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=189.6.212.239; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150033 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45620 Archived-At: On 11 jul, 18:48, Dirk Jagdmann wrote: > Hello experts, > > I have recently switched to emacs 22.1.1 from a 21.x release. I work on > Linux. My emacs configuration has remained unchanged. But now every time > I open a file (C-x C-f) that is already existing emacs open the buffer > as read-only. To edit the buffer I always have to use C-x C-q and this > is really annoying. > I checked unix file permissions and they allow me (my UID) to write and > I can save buffers without problems. I checked the Emacs News and my > configuration but did not find anything suspicious. > > Does anybody have a clue? Should I post my .emacs for investigation? > > -- > ---> Dirk Jagdmann ^ doj / cubic > ---->http://cubic.org/~doj > ----->http://llg.cubic.org Normally the experts (not me!) ask you to try to replicate the error after starting emacs with "emacs -q" so your customizations don't get loaded. Could try that and report back ? -weber