From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why emacs touches read-only file? Date: 19 Apr 2007 11:10:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1177006210.829320.133210@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1176920422.786251.122770@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1176957833.977449.134340@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <58ota7F2h6nrhU1@mid.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177007874 11609 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2007 18:37:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:37:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 20:37:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HebVo-00088b-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:37:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hebam-0004MM-4v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:42:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.62.17.156 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1177006211 26880 127.0.0.1 (19 Apr 2007 18:10:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:10:11 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <58ota7F2h6nrhU1@mid.dfncis.de> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.62.17.156; posting-account=sSuG_Q0AAACBMwnT3Ej4aAinBHQ74NmN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147226 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:42832 Archived-At: On Apr 19, 3:07 am, Arne Schmitz 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. I am using Ubuntu in my home, and installed "GNU Emacs > > 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of > > 2006-09-19 on rothera, modified by Debian", which works properly. > > > Hmm...Something wrong in the emacs in SUSE 9.3 or REDHAT 9. How can I > > fix the problem? What part should I see? > > Does the file you have edited by any chance reside on a networked mount? > > Arne > > -- > [--- PGP key FD05BED7 ---http://www.root42.de/---] Actually, it is not mounted via network. But I am using Linux via VNC Client. Is this causing the problem? (I don't think so.)