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From: "Yi Lang Mok" <yilangmok@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to not overwrite read-only files?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:44:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY20-F12B25D5D28BB4D4DD0428AB2670@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uwta7h1qz.fsf@gnu.org>

ctrl-x s saves the file even if the read-only setting is set.


>From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>Subject: Re: how to not overwrite read-only files?
>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:10:28 +0300
>
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:54:29 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: yilangmok <yilangmok@hotmail.com>
> >
> > For some reason, my emacs configuration just overwrites files when I 
>save,
> > even when it is marked -r--r--r-- (readonly).
>
>Please provide the details: what command(s) overwrites read-only
>files?
>
>Also, please try the same command(s) in "emacs -q"; if that does work
>as expected, the culprit is somewhere in your .emacs init file.
>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-22 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-20 21:54 how to not overwrite read-only files? yilangmok
2006-07-21  7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-22 23:44   ` Yi Lang Mok [this message]
2006-07-24 15:46     ` Kevin Rodgers

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