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Re: Why emacs touches read-only file?


From: Daniel
Subject: Re: Why emacs touches read-only file?
Date: 19 Apr 2007 11:10:10 -0700
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On Apr 19, 3:07 am, Arne Schmitz <arne.schm...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Daniel wrote:
> > It is very weird. In my work place, I was using REDHAT 9 and SUSE 9.3.
> > In there, emacs (21) write the buffer regardless of the file
> > permission. I am using Ubuntu in my home, and installed "GNU Emacs
> > 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> > 2006-09-19 on rothera, modified by Debian", which works properly.
>
> > Hmm...Something wrong in the emacs in SUSE 9.3 or REDHAT 9. How can I
> > fix the problem? What part should I see?
>
> Does the file you have edited by any chance reside on a networked mount?
>
> Arne
>
> --
> [--- PGP key FD05BED7 ---http://www.root42.de/---]

Actually, it is not mounted via network. But I am using Linux via VNC
Client. Is this causing the problem? (I don't think so.)



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