[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Bug-gnu-emacs] Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only
From: |
Richard M. Alderson III |
Subject: |
[Bug-gnu-emacs] Re: C-x C-q more useful as toggle-read-only |
Date: |
19 Sep 2000 22:53:36 GMT |
In article <200009181542.e8IFgdl10740@stay.intouchsys.com>
gildea@intouchsys.com (Stephen Gildea) writes:
> Emacs 19 changed C-x C-q to do some version control operation. This didn't
> seem so useful to me, because I use the old meaning of C-x C-q all the time,
> even on versioned files.
Must be later than 19.28, which I used for years until installing 20.7 a couple
of months ago.
I was recently screwed by the changed behaviour of C-x C-q: I was looking at
a file from our source repository, and wanted to make some change, then save it
into my own development directory (an operation I have executed for decades,
under TECO EMACS as well as GNU).
Imagine my surprise when it wrote out a new version of the file into the source
repository! I had to go get a backup tape and restore, to get the file dates
back in sync.
> Please change C-x C-q back to doing toggle-read-only.
I agree.
Rich Alderson Last LOTS Tops-20 Systems Programmer, 1984-1991
Current maintainer, MIT TECO EMACS (v. 170)
last name @ XKL dot COM Chief systems administrator, XKL LLC, 1998-now
--
Rich Alderson alderson@netcom.com
until 30 Sept 2000, when shell accounts go away from here.
I'll post from Panix after that.
"You get what anybody gets. You get a lifetime." --Death, of the Endless