Timeline for What does the M in MR stand for in the first column header of *IBuffer*?
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| Feb 4, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | itsjeyd | @bmillare Auto-generated buffers are read-only because Emacs uses them to present information to you. The assumption is that you don't want to edit these buffers in most cases, so Emacs prevents you from modifying them accidentally by making them read-only. I'm not an expert on this topic, but I guess these buffers are additionally marked as "modified" because they contain text that hasn't been saved to a file. | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 16:28 | comment | added | bmillare |
What's the reasoning with auto generated buffers like *Buffer List*, *Messages*, *cider-doc*, where I wouldn't have toggled the read-only state myself?
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 16:18 | comment | added | itsjeyd |
@bmillare Emacs lets you toggle read-only status of a file via C-x C-q, so if you modify a file and then make it read-only without saving it first, ibuffer will put a marker in both columns.
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| Feb 3, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | bmillare | How can a buffer be both modified and read only? Aren't they mutually exclusive? | |
| Feb 3, 2015 at 15:24 | history | answered | itsjeyd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |