From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Since some months, my .el files are read only, why? Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:34:33 +0300 Message-ID: <86frs8gsl2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86bk3a4tq6.fsf@gnu.org> <868qye4thm.fsf@gnu.org> <861q464ob8.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 13:35:43 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sU2wh-0000OR-36 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:35:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sU2w0-00027F-K3; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sU2vz-00024g-N4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sU2vz-0004kh-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2024 07:34:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=BJzx85P5xbOPHwSYfJh/U0eO5KElq0bWw8xKO+5pqLY=; b=PgBjDNVnYnPw 9V1Y4ty+nS6xSTR6aCPSyx+QE4LL/mKR7y7EA5fC0a+hTiobC0XS8TvvQm7dFlClEPVBDxnjX4DWP 7lQCJZ+Fr6J2VRExleF271mbMH5YH+GblUgz694u2QnM3Vph/iwBe5P9FMJXAbmNdiAWAAnffhsfM bx8PAFJ5+jRBoLlV3t5WIR0ryzquZUNlrcXEDqaqmyIL/qbuwksEVmqu+zXsFvak/Wdpv6yOEPEEx p4JHsag28cFBbBFuyLNlJyIjRx4ptb8w1dDvqvGG7Zt1jUPJchrjciKVf0mrYQy94SMRwYj24TOhp QcZ9W8Vk1QNo4xOqyKkRUQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:00:53 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147265 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 09:00:53 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > * Eli Zaretskii [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.