From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem opening files in dired Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8180b6da-0bf9-4da2-9d5b-2a02df2a1447@a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> References: <7495a16c-7214-4144-9733-999b3bd1ff9f@k30g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291870206 12696 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:50:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:50:06 +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 Dec 09 05:50:02 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQYS6-00021M-ID for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:49:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQYS6-0005J6-1H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:49:58 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1284752511 12762 127.0.0.1 (17 Sep 2010 19:41:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.59 Safari/534.3, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181360 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:76680 Archived-At: On Sep 17, 12:29=A0pm, "Russ P." wrote: > I am trying to switch from XEmacs to Emacs. When I try to open a file > in dired or a buffer in the buffer menu, I get a message saying > "Buffer is read-only" and it doesn't open. When I run Emacs remotely > from home on the same machine, I do not have this problem. Any clues > about what might be going on? I am using Emacs 23 on Red Hat. Thanks. > > Russ P. start emacs with -Q, and see if this still happens. If not, that means something in your .emacs. Xah