From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alp Aker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why read only buffer? Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:44:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341603890 18691 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2012 19:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 19:44:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 21:44:48 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SnESN-0005VT-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:44:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnESM-0005ke-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnESH-0005kX-EK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnESF-0003td-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gg0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:33879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SnESF-0003t2-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:44:39 -0400 Original-Received: by ggm4 with SMTP id 4so10435014ggm.0 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:44:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=pvnI2Ae+socFFBL12kHZl9YGyEQX7WNtIT5/XLNb0dU=; b=SVSzqF1hK2QQuinI1/qSLoR5nSOraZ0wjEBtZPMqsJXCd6OlW+9fLvPTk/79rT0ISQ FO6rXbmg9NLCDCYlbxKSi8lCdPqbOvCC/lEtxNLPaW13g4CDH7dPO2xfEuR06y8PZ3Pq 0xGFS7TYo+zd5QXxHKu2SUBiLoe7V2I8fESkWJb/ge8y774mAkqHDMPVUf/mdf3OSoA/ 0Yd5FbEXKunvMVAg/oGM8k6mJOla3cynwDTOrTu2RNEflKLNlyMfzr33nQKiWWeVA09H ANvM7LRjjuJd1YAAwoMIfoEf6Iv/6M4KRHeS6k6rj7sMTPjwY+31oBnuSzs+xJD9fIuW BGuw== Original-Received: by 10.50.12.165 with SMTP id z5mr3291679igb.65.1341603876473; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:44:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.64.142.70 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:44:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 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:85703 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:04 PM, notbob wrote: > As you can see, it's a backup file. So? I can edit the regular file, > but not the backup (~) file. Identical permissions. WTF!? Use the command 'toggle-read-only' (default binding C-x C-q) if you want to edit a backup file.