[darcs-users] toggling read-only
Juliusz Chroboczek
jch at pps.jussieu.fr
Wed Dec 29 20:56:22 UTC 2004
> > We're speaking about preventing the user from editing the files under
> > _darcs/current,
> I understood which files you were referring to.
Sorry.
> But there may be a reason a darcs wizard wants to do that someday.
> And if they go to all the trouble of "C-x C-f _darcs/current/foo",
I sometimes get confused by dired, and end up editing the wrong file.
> I think they'd be surprised to find that emacs has made the buffer
> of a read/write file read-only.
C-x C-q
> If users accidentally modifying files in _darcs/current were a common
> problem, I think it would be better to deal with that problem by
> having darcs leave those files read-only on the filesystem like rcs
> does.
I think I agree. David?
Juliusz
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