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Subject: Re: Why emacs touches read-only file?
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On Apr 19, 12:51 am, Glenn Morris <rgm+n...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > It is very weird. In my work place, I was using REDHAT 9 and SUSE 9.3.
> > In there, emacs (21) write the buffer regardless of the file
> > permission.
>
> Even if you start it with the options -q --no-site-file?
>
> If it works OK with -q, there is something in your ~/.emacs file (or
> system default.el file) to blame. If it works OK with --no-site-file,
> there is some problem in your system's site-start.el file.

No. I tried to run "emacs -q 1" and "emacs --no-site-file 1" and
"emacs -q --no-site-file 1", but all of them are not working properly
with read-only file.

BTW, I am seeing the REDHAT or SUSE linux via VNC Client. Is this
causing the problem?