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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Re: edit-src on read-only files
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:58:50 +0100
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Hi all,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
>
>> hi.  i use RCS on my .org files.  it's happened to me more than once (>1
>> ==> "shame on me") that i've entered "C-c '" on a read-only .org file,
>> spent some time editing the source code fragment, then done "C-c '",
>> only to lose my edits, as the original buffer was read-only.
>
> Yes, I share your shame... this has happened to me more than once as
> well.  Thank you for the simple solution which I have installed!
>

I have installed that as well.  Very nice thanks.

> But you are correct that org should check for this case.  Or at least
> provide a mechanism for saving the source code block elsewhere...

Seconded.

On a related note:  I'd also love to see the changes in the
source code buffers be autosaved in the org file.  I've lost some big
edits already due to power loss on my (old) laptop.

Cheers,
Andreas