Re: A problem with read-only in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.07.2008 um 05:45 schrieb D. Power:

> It seems that I
> (or the keyboard-walking kitten) have somehow changed the settings in
> emacs (21.2.1) so that new files are created as read-only, so I  
> have to
> chmod any new file before I can edit it.

I don't think that GNU Emacs has this ability – which other tool that  
also can edit files would create read-only files (it won't be able to  
edit and save these edits)? It's likely your run-time environment  
that was changed to create read-only files (and directories). In UNIX  
umask is related to this. When invoked in a shell it well tell you  
its setting, when used with an argument, it will change the recent  
value to the given one. 'umask 022' is a good choice, that can also  
be put into the shell's RC file. For GNU Emacs you should choose 002  
because some (defective?) code high-lights in dired-mode permissions  
of group-writable files by default.

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  Pete

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