[darcs-users] toggling read-only

[Joe Edmonds]

Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> We're speaking about preventing the user from editing the files under
> _darcs/current, which should never, ever be edited by anything else
> than darcs itself.

I understood which files you were referring to.  And I can't, at the 
moment, think of a reason I'd want to edit a file in _darcs/current.

But there may be a reason a darcs wizard wants to do that someday.  And 
if they go to all the trouble of "C-x C-f _darcs/current/foo", I think 
they'd be surprised to find that emacs has made the buffer of a 
read/write file read-only.

If users accidentally modifying files in _darcs/current were a common 
problem, I think it would be better to deal with that problem by having 
darcs leave those files read-only on the filesystem like rcs does.