From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to edit/modify patches using emacs? Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:48:34 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87psw0f7o1.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <427df645$0$26177$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> <427fbef8$0$15822$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115672551 10401 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2005 21:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 23:02:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFNq-0005WB-Gw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 23:01:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DVFWF-000827-8e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2005 17:10:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1iptojxS9EcKKDgl39zo5LQu6p0= Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.32.212 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1115671714 67.71.32.212 (Mon, 09 May 2005 16:48:34 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:48:34 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130805 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:26460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26460 > No that's not the problem. If I open a file like .patch or .diff > emacs opens it read-only (OK, I can rename the file, e.g. just to , > then the problem no longer persists). Yes, it was a stupid idea of mine. See diff-default-read-only, which in Emacs-CVS has been set to nil. Sorry 'bout it, Stefan