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: Re: Emacs and Read-Only Files Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:11:03 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <12jcr9o4pa88oe1@corp.supernews.com> References: <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 1161196905 24271 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2006 18:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 20:41:45 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 1GaGMA-00073d-Ea for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaGM9-0000it-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:41:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news3.cnt.ru!mtu.ru!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-xt-sjc-01!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) In-Reply-To: <12jcqsch3k6ms6d@corp.supernews.com> Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142492 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:38113 Archived-At: One other thing I noticed - when I look at the *Messages* buffer I get the following messages: Note: file is write protected Loading semantic-c...done byte-code: Buffer is read-only: # Loading semantic-edit...done Loading semanticdb-file...done Mark set However, I commented out the loading of the cedet code (and the ecb that requires it) and I still get the same issue. Mark * Mark Elston wrote (on 10/18/2006 11:03 AM): > 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