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bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:34:09 +0300 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 50431@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:35:31 +0300
>
> >> Maybe minor modes should be restored after reverting?
> >
> > Only the minor modes that are automatically turned on when visiting
> > the file. Reverting should produce the same effect as killing the
> > buffer and then visiting the file anew, nothing more, nothing less.
>
> In the above example, `C-h C-t' `C-x x g' doesn't preserve the same state
> as visiting the file anew with `C-h C-t'.
>
> > For that reason, I'm not sure the change that preserves the read-only
> > status across reverts is correct. At the very least, it should be an
> > opt-in feature, IMO.
>
> It was a regression when reverting stopped to preserve the read-only status
> that worked in older versions.
IMO, that was a mistake. It violates the notion of "reverting", at
least in my book.
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/24
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/24
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/25
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Juri Linkov, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Drew Adams, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Drew Adams, 2022/08/26
- bug#50431: revert-buffer doesn't preserve read-onlyness, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/08/27