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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Since some months, my .el files are read only, why?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:31:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwved7scfnu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ed7scphq.fsf@gmail.com

> vc-rcs.el installs a find-file hook that makes RCS buffers
> readonly.

Indeed:

    (defun vc-rcs-find-file-hook ()
      ;; If the file is locked by some other user, make
      ;; the buffer read-only.  Like this, even root
      ;; cannot modify a file that someone else has locked.
      (and (stringp (vc-state buffer-file-name 'RCS))
           (setq buffer-read-only t)))

> Iʼm guessing that it checks just for the presence of RCS/
> files (I says 'guessing' because vc is a twisty maze of passages).

No, it actually checks the RCS status.  It doesn't need the `rcs`
executable for that, instead it parses the RCS file.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-17 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-06 11:51 Since some months, my .el files are read only, why? Jean Louis
2024-07-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-06 12:47     ` Jean Louis
2024-07-06 13:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07  6:46         ` Jean Louis
2024-07-10  6:28           ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-11 18:00             ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-14  6:00         ` Jean Louis
2024-07-17  9:54           ` Robert Pluim
2024-07-17 13:31             ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2024-07-17 11:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-17 14:46             ` Jean Louis
2024-07-19 17:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-26  9:28                 ` Jean Louis
2024-07-30 16:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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