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From: "T. V. Raman" <raman@users.sf.net>
To: dominik@science.uva.nl
Cc: raman@users.sf.net, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode, vc, and read-only files:
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:05:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17708.17220.12234.560578@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13ed0c9f299bddbf2be16a488db8e590@science.uva.nl>


Actually your message told me enough to debug the problem, the
culrpit was I (or rather emacspeak) which  implements voice lock
purely via properties, and in that process maps overlays to
properties for its own purposes. So the fix should go into
emacspeak -- I'll check it in at this end.

>>>>> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
    Carsten> Hi Raman, I sure could wrap the relevant parts in
    Carsten> org-cycle with inhibit-read-only, but so far I
    Carsten> cannot reproduce the error.  When I am loading a
    Carsten> write-protected file, I am getting a "Note: file is
    Carsten> write protected."  This note is delivered as a
    Carsten> message only, and after that everything proceeds
    Carsten> normally.  In the buffer I seem to be able to use
    Carsten> org-cycle freely even though it is write protected.
    Carsten> I think this is because outline-mode uses overlays,
    Carsten> not text properties.  So I am guessing that it is
    Carsten> not org-cycle which causes the error.
    Carsten> 
    Carsten> Can you give me more hints as to what the problem
    Carsten> really is?  Maybe an example file that hits the
    Carsten> error and produces a backtrace?
    Carsten> 
    Carsten> Thanks.
    Carsten> 
    Carsten> - Carsten
    Carsten> 
    Carsten> 
    Carsten> On Oct 7, 2006, at 21:16, T. V. Raman wrote:
    Carsten> 
    >> Would it be possible to make org-cycle work on read-only
    >> files --- suspect we just neeed to wrap its body in a (let
    >> ((inhibit-read-only t))...)
    >> 
    >> At present, if you put your org files under vc control,
    >> with RCS then opening a checked-in file i.e. one that is
    >> read-only, causes an error since org-cycle is unable to
    >> change properties on read-only content.
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> Best Regards, --raman
    >> 
    >> 
    >> Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW:
    >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk:
    >> tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP:
    >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google:
    >> tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs
    >> 
    >> 
    >> _______________________________________________
    >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
    >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
    >> 
    >> 
    Carsten> 
--
Carsten Dominik Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek"
    Carsten> Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 403 NL-1098SJ
    Carsten> Amsterdam phone: +31 20 525 7477

-- 
Best Regards,
--raman

      
Email:  raman@users.sf.net
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      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-07 19:16 org-mode, vc, and read-only files: T. V. Raman
2006-10-10 19:57 ` Carsten Dominik
2006-10-11  1:05   ` T. V. Raman [this message]

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