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> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org