Re: VC, read-only buffers for writable files

[Richard Stallman]

    Sorry that should have been `buffer'.

    >     better that way for the user.  More specifically, it makes it 
read-only
    >     if the file seems to be locked by another user.
    > 
    > Under RCS, the file is read-only whenever the file is not locked by you.
    > I think that is the right way to handle it.

I also meant `buffer'.

    If the file is indeed read-only, then everything works as expected,
    but the VC code also tries to make the buffer read-only when the file
    is locked by someone else and yet is writable.

I think that is correct--and useful.  If VC is mistaken, you can use
C-x C-q to make the buffer writable.