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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Since some months, my .el files are read only, why?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:34:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86frs8gsl2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZpNplc7OoEgS0mih@lco2> (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:00:53 +0300)

> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:00:53 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2024-07-06 16:57]:
> > What's the difference between the two groups?  Does "ls -l" show the
> > same for files from both groups?
> 
> I was using RCS before, then I stopped. But rcs was not installed. However, those files that were registered in RCS were read only.
> 
> I have renamed RCS directory and now those files do not appear read only.
> 
> But I wonder how is that when rcs command was not installed.

That's clear to me: when you check-in a file into RCS, it is made
read-only in the filesystem.  That's how RCS works, always has.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-06 11:51 Since some months, my .el files are read only, why? Jean Louis
2024-07-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 12:47     ` Jean Louis
2024-07-06 13:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07  6:46         ` Jean Louis
2024-07-10  6:28           ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-11 18:00             ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-14  6:00         ` Jean Louis
2024-07-17  9:54           ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-17 13:31             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-17 11:34           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-17 14:46             ` Jean Louis
2024-07-19 17:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-26  9:28                 ` Jean Louis
2024-07-30 16:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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