-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've wondered about this. Occasionally some files will show up as 'read-only' in Emacs even when I have permissions to the file. Why does this happen? <snippy>I recently figured out that M-x toggle-read-only exists by browsing the info pages. What a poor excuse for documentation. Yes, it's free. It's also darn hard to find the relevant docs.</snippy> Joshua b. Jore Minneapolis Ward 3, precinct 10 http://www.greentechnologist.org On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, Mike Bresnahan wrote: > You can edit read-only files in Emacs using the command toggle-read-only. > Type "M-x toggle-read-only" where M-x is likely Alt-x. Off course, you > cannot write to the file if you don't own it. > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of mcolivier > > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 8:47 AM > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: [TCLUG] Emacs and editing read-only configuration files > > > > > > Hello. > > I want to edit some configuation files to see if I can get SAMBA > > to work. I > > have leanred to use Emacs, but I can't actually edit the > > configuration file, > > as it says I can do in the tutorial, because the configuratin file > > (/etc/samba/smb.conf) is a read-only file. I've tried gettinginto > > Emacs from > > root, but I get weird error messages. > > > > The same kind of thing happens when I try to use Comanche to configure > > Apache. All of this is happening off of SuSE Linux 7.3. Any suggestions? > > Also, at the upcoming Installfest, is there likely to be anyone > > there to help > > me load and unload the hardware, as I will be there by myself. > > > > Marc Olivier > > (See, I like linux so much I'm using kmail!) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > > Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (OpenBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8ABa7fexLsowstzcRAsQ0AKCCnXClrEWTpMK7kq2bWVTkuZkvyACfWX+V aUY89rBQxF+XDqtKNv1bJvI= =6Rxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----