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* bug#6762: 23.2; Eshell bug in detecting read-only file (patch included)
@ 2010-07-30 10:13 Leo
  2010-07-30 10:15 ` John Wiegley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Leo @ 2010-07-30 10:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 6762; +Cc: John Wiegley

I have diff-default-read-only set to t and this prevents eshell from
writing to diff files i.e.

  ESHELL$ git diff x..y > file.diff

fails due to its use of buffer-read-only, which doesn't necessary
reflects the read-only state of a file.

The following patch tries to fix this.

Leo

commit b1dc6a427e43470981d4700b0c98aa21ecb03052
Author: sdl.web@gmail.com
Date:   Sat May 1 17:50:21 2010 +0100

    Better detection of read-only file in eshell-get-target

	Modified lisp/eshell/esh-io.el
diff --git a/lisp/eshell/esh-io.el b/lisp/eshell/esh-io.el
index 1bcfe2b..3aa785c 100644
--- a/lisp/eshell/esh-io.el
+++ b/lisp/eshell/esh-io.el
@@ -343,8 +343,9 @@ it defaults to `insert'."
 	(let* ((exists (get-file-buffer target))
 	       (buf (find-file-noselect target t)))
 	  (with-current-buffer buf
-	    (if buffer-read-only
+	    (if buffer-file-read-only
 		(error "Cannot write to read-only file `%s'" target))
+	    (setq buffer-read-only nil)
 	    (set (make-local-variable 'eshell-output-file-buffer)
 		 (if (eq exists buf) 0 t))
 	    (cond ((eq mode 'overwrite)






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