From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Elston Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs and Read-Only Files Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:03:55 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <12jcqsch3k6ms6d@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161196881 24181 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2006 18:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 20:41:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaGLe-0006v0-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaGLe-0000Qu-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:41:02 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-08!sn-ams!sn-feed-ams-01!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 20 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142491 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38112 Archived-At: I have GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 and GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 compiled for Windows. Both versions behave strangely when loading files that are Read-Only. In both cases the file gets loaded, I get a message saying 'Mark Set' but the window doesn't switch to the newly loaded file. This doesn't happen when I load a file with write permission. Unfortunately (or fortunately), when I start up emacs with --no-init this behavior doesn't occur. I have a rather extensive .emacs file and would *really* hate to go through the cycle of commenting out blocks and re-starting necessary to track this down. So, does anyone have any ideas what could be happening? Obviously, something I have loaded is interfering with the loading of these read-only files, but I don't have a clue what it could be. Mark