Package: emacs23
Version: 23.4+1-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

reproduce:
    emacs .sout   # minimal string required for bug
    emacs ARBITRARY.soutARBITRARY

result:
buffer being unconditionally READONLY (independent of file
permissions or existence)

I can not find that literal string in any files i *think* are read
in by emacs (/etc/emacs, /usr/lib/emacs*, /usr/share/emacs*) and
can not find that string in the emacs23 Debian source code package
source.

We have a user with many file names of the form XXXX.southYYYY
(.north, etc..) and it is aggravating to them to have the buffer
always start off readonly.

I have tried this on a CentOS machine (albeit emacs 21) and the
problem does not exist there.

I also tried this on a Debian Jessie box with GNU Emacs 24.3.1,
and the problem doesn't exhibit there (must be fixed), either, but
it would be nice to have a fix or a workaround or understanding of
where the bug/misfeature is triggering (sorry, i'm a 'vim' person,
and i can't find any info via search engine for this problem)


thanks,
--stephen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages emacs23 depends on:
ii  emacs23-bin-common  23.4+1-4
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-38+deb7u4
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1+deb7u3
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libgif4             4.1.6-10
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgpm2             1.20.4-6
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libice6             2:1.0.8-2
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1+deb7u1
ii  libm17n-0           1.6.3-2
ii  libncurses5         5.9-10
ii  libotf0             0.9.12-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.49-1
ii  librsvg2-2          2.36.1-2
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.1-2
ii  libtiff4            3.9.6-11
ii  libtinfo5           5.9-10
ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxft2             2.3.1-1
ii  libxpm4             1:3.5.10-1
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

emacs23 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages emacs23 suggests:
pn  emacs23-common-non-dfsg  <none>

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