From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Since some months, my .el files are read only, why? Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:40:34 +0300 Message-ID: <861q3pfffx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86bk3a4tq6.fsf@gnu.org> <868qye4thm.fsf@gnu.org> <861q464ob8.fsf@gnu.org> <86frs8gsl2.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3611"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 19 20:03:04 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrwd-0000iK-U2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:03:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrw2-0003j2-GF; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrw0-0003fD-S2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrw0-0001hK-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:02:24 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=wEdicNFXrejAS9jGUH+x878DIHtzJ9H5SZtY03mUDlk=; b=fy+H2tem3JXB yr/UIm0j1UcXw+8JdpaxkWsiGgeKOrlEere6QYYUtdKqgO8mB8W0JEoSfa/0ZMc5rmyCNOVZB7Ckr ifWMNrVIYwfx8LVca5AYrE0pWYfo+HHTnBcoxABIy1sdKBGp60mpoZ4oMerNsg6BwUBPl2wO6Urbm pu5klcsyLVHP/W8yH4bY4fpp3SWYPmfEdkZ4HdSARhF9rIfmNkEDJJ/zB0HwuCaB8HAKCa/nwrhBb lxkAVvBIsLHwMMxM1aJM+WOtnDOkRzySsUiWN2Bx/ZcqL7G57i3CFFS4mn0wyo/s0iX1UCr+WFz6R cCVlaJDNImVZrfyq5UYr1w==; In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:46:09 +0300) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:147277 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:46:09 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > * Eli Zaretskii [2024-07-17 14:36]: > > > I have renamed RCS directory and now those files do not appear read only. > > > > > > But I wonder how is that when rcs command was not installed. > > > > That's clear to me: when you check-in a file into RCS, it is made > > read-only in the filesystem. That's how RCS works, always has. > > Mystery solved. > > Question is if it should be that way even if `rcs' command is not installed. Emacs tries to be efficient, so it takes the existence of the RCS subdirectory and the files in it as the indication of the fact that the file is managed by RCS. This is faster than invoking the RCS programs.