Open a dired buffer visiting a directory with SVG images. Mark some SVG files then try to `dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace' in those files. It fails due to `image-file-mode' turning all visited buffers as read-only... In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.7)  of 2017-02-07 built on arojas Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11901000 System Description: Arch Linux Configured using:  'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib  --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft  'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe  -fstack-protector-strong' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 Important settings:   value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8   value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Image[imagemagick] Minor modes in effect:   tooltip-mode: t   global-eldoc-mode: t   electric-indent-mode: t   mouse-wheel-mode: t   file-name-shadow-mode: t   global-font-lock-mode: t   font-lock-mode: t   blink-cursor-mode: t   auto-composition-mode: t   auto-encryption-mode: t   auto-compression-mode: t   line-number-mode: t   transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Marking matching files... 48 matching files marked. Type C-c C-c to view the image as text. [2 times] Mark set replace-match-maybe-edit: Text is read-only Making completion list... [2 times] Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message idna format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epg epg-config gnus-util mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils image-mode find-dired semantic/fw mode-local find-func xref cl-seq project eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv eieio-core cl-macs gv cl-extra help-mode easymenu grep compile comint ansi-color ring dired-aux cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib thingatpt dired time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp- opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese charscript case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 113568 8337)  (symbols 48 21910 0)  (miscs 40 133 179)  (strings 32 21059 4609)  (string-bytes 1 676212)  (vectors 16 15375)  (vector-slots 8 461447 4393)  (floats 8 242 81)  (intervals 56 1459 8)  (buffers 976 25)) --  Matthias Meulien www.delair-tech.com