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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 14943@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14943: 24.3.50; Now just making text invisible locks the file for editing
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:23:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2iy2n4k.fsf@building.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ceffdb7-c90f-4053-ba1a-a4b4f28d86c2@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:50:22 -0700 (PDT)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Visit a file and make some text invisible, e.g., using C-S-mouse-2 > 
> Special Properties > Invisible.  That's all.
>
> emacs -Q ; another session.
>
> Visit the same file and try to make some other text invisible.
>
> You get this (nearly incomprehensible) prompt:
>
> "...part-of-name.el locked by dradams@DRADA... (pid 6928): (s, q, p, ?)? "

Yeah, adding text properties to a buffer marks it as changed (which is
correct, I guess).  But is that really useful for buffers that
correspond to files?

On the other hand, it's one of the "why did you do that, then?" issues.
Why would you do that?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-08  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-24  5:50 bug#14943: 24.3.50; Now just making text invisible locks the file for editing Drew Adams
2013-07-24  6:04 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-24  6:11   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-08  5:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-08  9:21   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11 11:48     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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