From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5658: 23.1; Viewing .info files in Emacs' info-viewer Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:23:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4b8ac3ce.0710660a.2ece.ffffbb3d@mx.google.com> <87iq9drzzi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267822473 17236 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2010 20:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 05 21:54:29 2010 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NneXU-0001zf-2T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:23:11 -0500 Original-Received: from toip5.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.88]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20100305202309.SVGD1786.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip5.srvr.bell.ca> for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:23:09 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAHnzkEtGN5E3/2dsb2JhbACbSHS3N4R3BIMX Original-Received: from bas1-montreal42-1178046775.dsl.bell.ca (HELO ceviche.home) ([70.55.145.55]) by toip5.srvr.bell.ca with ESMTP; 05 Mar 2010 15:22:27 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 06757B44D4; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 15:23:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:10:46 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:25:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35435 Archived-At: > That doesn't work either: even if the file is editable, the buffer is > read-only. That's not necessarily a problem. Several major modes put their buffer in a read-only mode even if the underlying file is writable. This is typically the case for modes that change the appearance of the buffer (use things like after-string and display properties). I think in the case of Info buffers, it's perfectly OK to open them in read-only mode even if the file is writable. Stefan