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"Francesco Potorti`" writes:
> In my opinion, that should be standard Emacs behaviour.  root should be
> protected against writing its own read-only files justa as anyone else.
> 
> But anyway, why don't you put those four lines in your
> /etc/emacs/default.el or ~root/.emacs?  I did the former.

Modifying emacs on his system protects one, or a few users, from this
problem.  Reporting the bug, and getting it fixed everywhere, protects
many thousands of users.  I tend to agree with him, the latter is worth
the trouble but the former isn't.

                                        David desJardins