On 2004-12-29, Joe Edmonds <joe-rcKlk6LmnZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> But there may be a reason a darcs wizard wants to do that someday. And
> if they go to all the trouble of "C-x C-f _darcs/current/foo", I think
> they'd be surprised to find that emacs has made the buffer of a
> read/write file read-only.
If they are a darcs wizard, they shouldn't be suprised by that safety
feature. :) They can turn off vc-darcs.el mode and go on.
> If users accidentally modifying files in _darcs/current were a common
> problem, I think it would be better to deal with that problem by having
> darcs leave those files read-only on the filesystem like rcs does.
It hasn't been a problem, but it could become one if editor plugins make
it easy, and don't provide any education/warnings to the user about the
dangers.
Mark
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