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: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:44:20 +0300 Message-ID: <86r0baygm3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86bk3a4tq6.fsf@gnu.org> <868qye4thm.fsf@gnu.org> <861q464ob8.fsf@gnu.org> <86frs8gsl2.fsf@gnu.org> <861q3pfffx.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26266"; 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 Tue Jul 30 18:44:55 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 1sYpy1-0006dA-7H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:44:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sYpxb-0001et-Sm; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:44:27 -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 1sYpxY-0001UX-Rr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:44:25 -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 1sYpxY-0007ER-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:44:24 -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=LtU6AKi8iKlae9tKktfXTQDSclIHJpGAtUSRFs/6CFE=; b=dTFeMEct87Pq y7FNVoqmE3fmkRIYDyN9ytvpPHz4nGJKmNAHHNwcGwPIWzG4SB5eezd1+EA3dWOsXM1mfHUsKDL8R eI9zJuGUs9FOi+jnU6pBxH7kVVI6atJ6sHUsc6GH9lNkc5AbEvp0MlyoIGWmGuwYdkZXQZNf6M8Uq e5lR2IqbLTUcDBrCiKWADPjC14hqQ7MtBE6U4/OvBwH5QJVL2MbmOfBRjTsZcymLwYyxbquo8SZ97 ZsV1+rxZaV+NmDtpjqmX0vFA3xCyQDcxkJ9qEzylEr0kv27B87aZ+ddnpagXE0obiZ26ENFRDsEpq 3qWp+xU5YuP0ylO1t3j01g==; In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:28:35 +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:147454 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:28:35 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > * Eli Zaretskii [2024-07-19 21:04]: > > Emacs tries to be efficient, so it takes the existence of the RCS > > subdirectory and the files in it as the indication of the fact that > > the file is managed by RCS. This is faster than invoking the RCS > > programs. > > Don't you think that some kind of warning shall be given about it, like in *Messages* that it did not find rcs command and that files are made read-only? Emacs doesn't know that rcs is not available, because it avoids calling it.