From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to not overwrite read-only files? Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:46:55 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153756155 14899 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2006 15:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 17:49:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G52fr-0000hO-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:48:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G52fr-0001Fc-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:48:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G52fd-0001FT-P0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G52fa-0001FH-39 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:48:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G52fZ-0001FE-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:48:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G52gh-00074U-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:49:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G52ew-0000ST-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:47:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:47:54 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:47:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: 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:36202 Archived-At: Yi Lang Mok wrote: > ctrl-x s saves the file even if the read-only setting is set. Please don't top-post. >> From: Eli Zaretskii >> 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 >> > >> > 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. Is the buffer marked as read-only in the mode line? Has it been modified? That is, do you see %%, %*, **, or -- between the coding system and the buffer name? -- Kevin