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Re: saveplace prevent me from quitting if ~/.emacs-places is write-prote
From: |
Karl Fogel |
Subject: |
Re: saveplace prevent me from quitting if ~/.emacs-places is write-protected |
Date: |
05 Mar 2003 20:48:40 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> quotes someone else saying:
> I have saveplace enabled, and I launched Emacs from another account
> than mine, so, no permission on ~/.emacs-place.
Can you say exactly what you did, starting from login?
If you are logged in as user foo, then ~/.emacs-place should expand to
that file in foo's home directory, and you should have permissions on
~foo/.emacs-place (assuming the file was created in some reasonable
manner). Whether the foo account is "your" account or someone else's
shouldn't make a difference to the permission system...
There may be some crucial bit of your recipe I'm misunderstanding.
(Of course, we could just reproduce this by setting .emacs-place
unwriteable manually, but it sounds like that's not what you did.)
> C-x C-c to quit, it asks me if I want to save ~/.emacs-place anyway,
> because it's write protected. I say no, and get this error message
>
> « basic-save-buffer-2: Attempt to save to a file which you aren't
> allowed to write »
Richard, et al,
Assuming we can reproduce this, what is the right solution? Is there
already a policy for how Emacs should behave when there's an error
saving a file at exit time, and that file is managed by Emacs (i.e.,
is not just a regular file visited for editing by the user)?
Thanks,
-Karl