From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Memnon Anon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read-only warning message Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <877h9pqji6.fsf@mean.albasani.net> References: <20110517173413.B874851031E@outside.256.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305657038 371 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2011 18:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:30:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 17 20:30:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2M-00026j-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:30:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2L-00074J-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59581) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2F-000749-K0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2E-00034o-AD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2E-00034S-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMP2C-00020j-0w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from e178241074.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.241.74]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:30:20 +0200 Original-Received: from gegendosenfleisch by e178241074.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 20:30:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178241074.adsl.alicedsl.de Cancel-Lock: sha1:zV56CNwNw/IkHhxnnxuskunyqDE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80995 Archived-At: sdn.gnuem@mailnull.com writes: > Hello emacs folks, > > This is not a desperate call for urgent help or > anything -- this is just something that has bugged me for some time. > > When you make a buffer read-only (via C-x C-q toggle-read-only), > and the file in the buffer is under version control, you get a > warning message: "File is under version-control; use C-x v v to > check in/out". > > Anyone have any idea why? What earthly relevance could the file's > being under version-control have to my toggling the buffer's > read-only state? ,---- | commit c97bded566032831e282666899ff847ba58c69a2 | Author: André Spiegel | Date: Tue Jul 16 17:40:37 2002 +0000 | | Bind toggle-read-only to C-x C-q. | (toggle-read-only): Display a warning message if the file is under | version control. `---- This message has been there for 9 years; pitty there is no hint in there. But I just checked: Using view mode displays no warning. If the warning bothers you, you may want to consider using it instead. Memnon