From: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
To: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Read-only warning message
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:06:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52006E7F-C566-48CA-B8D2-CE483064B2A4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h9pqji6.fsf@mean.albasani.net>
On May 17, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Memnon Anon wrote:
> sdn.gnuem@mailnull.com writes:
>
>> Hello emacs folks,
>>
>> This is not a desperate call for urgent help or
>> anything -- this is just something that has bugged me for some time.
>>
>> When you make a buffer read-only (via C-x C-q toggle-read-only),
>> and the file in the buffer is under version control, you get a
>> warning message: "File is under version-control; use C-x v v to
>> check in/out".
>>
>> Anyone have any idea why? What earthly relevance could the file's
>> being under version-control have to my toggling the buffer's
>> read-only state?
>
> ,----
> | commit c97bded566032831e282666899ff847ba58c69a2
> | Author: André Spiegel <spiegel@gnu.org>
> | Date: Tue Jul 16 17:40:37 2002 +0000
> |
> | Bind toggle-read-only to C-x C-q.
> | (toggle-read-only): Display a warning message if the file is under
> | version control.
> `----
>
> This message has been there for 9 years; pitty there is no hint in
> there.
>
> But I just checked: Using view mode displays no warning.
> If the warning bothers you, you may want to consider using it instead.
I may be daft but I believe I recall that long ago, that is how you checked files in and out. If the file was not checked out and you edited it, it would be read-only. And to toggle that, you could do ^X-^Q and that would trigger emacs into checking out the file. Thus, the warning when that procedure changed to alert people that things have changed.
pedz
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2011-05-17 17:34 Read-only warning message sdn.gnuem
2011-05-17 18:30 ` Memnon Anon
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