Subject: Re: bug#14943: 24.3.50; Now just making text invisible locks the file for editing

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:23:55 -0800

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Visit a file and make some text invisible, e.g., using C-S-mouse-2 > 
> Special Properties > Invisible.  That's all.
>
> emacs -Q ; another session.
>
> Visit the same file and try to make some other text invisible.
>
> You get this (nearly incomprehensible) prompt:
>
> "...part-of-name.el locked by dradams@DRADA... (pid 6928): (s, q, p, ?)? "

Yeah, adding text properties to a buffer marks it as changed (which is
correct, I guess).  But is that really useful for buffers that
correspond to files?

On the other hand, it's one of the "why did you do that, then?" issues.
Why would you do that?

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