From: notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why read only buffer?
Date: 6 Jul 2012 21:50:53 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnjvenia.3be.notbob@nbleet.hcc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4218.1341608337.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2012-07-06, PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net> wrote:
> That's deliberately there to stop you from accidentally modifying a
> backup file when you meant to be working with the regular file. If
> you searched through the source you'd find this in files.el:
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. ;)
What I seem to recall is, backup files were progressively renamed for
more than on "back-up", as in foo~1, foo~2, or something similar.
Perhaps I'm thinking of jed. I'm old. I ferget. ;)
>
> -----
> ;; Make people do a little extra work (C-x C-q)
> ;; before altering a backup file.
> (when (backup-file-name-p buffer-file-name)
> (setq buffer-read-only t))
> -----
So, how does none set it to make it overwriteable, by default. Jes
delete the above code?
nb
--
vi --the heart of evil!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-06 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-06 19:04 why read only buffer? notbob
2012-07-06 19:44 ` Alp Aker
2012-07-06 20:58 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] ` <mailman.4218.1341608337.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-06 21:50 ` notbob [this message]
2012-07-06 22:40 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] ` <mailman.4213.1341603883.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-06 21:02 ` notbob
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