Peter Dyballa wrote: > Shouldn't they be read-only from nature? If you want to edit them, you > can press e in that buffer. If that does not help, check the > permissions of that patch file! Are you its owner? Are you allowed to > create a backup copy of the file in its directory? No that's not the problem. If I open a file like <file>.patch or <file>.diff emacs opens it read-only (OK, I can rename the file, e.g. just to <file>, then the problem no longer persists).
Miles Bader wrote: >> When I open a patch (created by simple diff) emacs says it's read-only. > > `toggle-read-only' (normally bound to C-x C-q I think). Thanks, C-x C-q or M-x toggle-read-only work. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
