From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: yilangmok Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to not overwrite read-only files? Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5425296.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153434109 8140 80.91.229.2 (20 Jul 2006 22:21:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 00:21:47 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 1G3gtn-0008BZ-UL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:21:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gtn-0006zR-Bj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gtb-0006xb-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gta-0006wU-Vi for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3gta-0006wM-UH for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G3gts-0003Kw-5T for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1G3gtZ-0004vd-40 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:21:25 -0700 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Nabble-Sender: yilangmok@hotmail.com X-Nabble-From: yilangmok 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:36132 Archived-At: For some reason, my emacs configuration just overwrites files when I save, even when it is marked -r--r--r-- (readonly). Is there a setting for emacs to confirm whether to overwrite the file first? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-not-overwrite-read-only-files--tf1977495.html#a5425296 Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com.