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bug#39912: "Probably introduced at or before Emacs version ..." link sho
From: |
Nicholas Savage |
Subject: |
bug#39912: "Probably introduced at or before Emacs version ..." link should open NEWS read-only |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 07:26:11 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Cyrus-JMAP/3.3.0-259-g88fbbfa-fm-20200903.003-g88fbbfa3 |
Uhh, no! I did not intend to leave out debbugs. Thanks for letting me know (I
had got debbugs set up in emacs and didn't realize exactly how it worked).
But back to the matter at hand, now I can reproduce it. I'm going to attempt a
fix for this, it seems like a simple enough fix for me to tackle for my first
patch here.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020, at 06:32, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> (I'm not sure whether you dropped the debbugs address from the Cc here
> on purpose or not, so I'm not adding it back. :-))
>
> Nick Savage <nick@nicksavage.ca> writes:
>
> > So that's interesting. I originally did not use 'emacs -Q', but now that
> > I am using that, it still is read-only. I'm also on the current trunk. I
> > don't have a good explanation for that. I also tried it out on one of my
> > other computers that's on 27.1.50 and it was also read only.
> >
> > So in the describe function for describe-function there are two links
> > - one for the defun and one
> > for the NEWS file. Both of those open for me as read-only.
>
> Yeah, it sounded like Andreas found the reason why -- the installed
> files are normally not writeable by a user.
>
>