Mercurial > emacs
changeset 46215:0695dbe46ee5
Clarify read-only visiting commands.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 07 Jul 2002 19:50:56 +0000 |
| parents | e89fee6c4aea |
| children | 00a9017b1365 |
| files | man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/files.texi Sun Jul 07 18:30:45 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Sun Jul 07 19:50:56 2002 +0000 @@ -273,16 +273,16 @@ @code{find-file-wildcards}. If you visit a file that the operating system won't let you modify, -Emacs makes the buffer read-only, so that you won't go ahead and make -changes that you'll have trouble saving afterward. You can make the -buffer writable with @kbd{C-x C-q} (@code{vc-toggle-read-only}). -@xref{Misc Buffer}. +or that is marked read-only, Emacs makes the buffer read-only too, so +that you won't go ahead and make changes that you'll have trouble +saving afterward. You can make the buffer writable with @kbd{C-x C-q} +(@code{vc-toggle-read-only}). @xref{Misc Buffer}. @kindex C-x C-r @findex find-file-read-only - Occasionally you might want to visit a file as read-only in order to -protect yourself from entering changes accidentally; do so by visiting -the file with the command @kbd{C-x C-r} (@code{find-file-read-only}). + If you want to visit a file as read-only in order to protect +yourself from entering changes accidentally, visit it with the command +@kbd{C-x C-r} (@code{find-file-read-only}) instead of @kbd{C-x C-f}. @kindex C-x C-v @findex find-alternate-file