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whitespace.el: auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only buffers

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To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Subject: bug#360 closed by Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> (Re: #360: 
 whitespace.el: auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only buffers)

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#360: whitespace.el: auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only buffers

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 360-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: #360: whitespace.el: auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only buffers
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:15:37 -0400

2008-09-05  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <viniciusjl <at> ig.com.br>

        * whitespace.el: Fix auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only
        buffers (bug#360). 

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: whitespace.el: auto-cleanup on kill prevents killing read-only
 buffers
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:52:19 +0100 (BST)

On Fri, 2 May 2008, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> I have whitespace-global-mode on and have it set to auto-cleanup on kill. 
> This stops read-only buffers from being killed, as auto-cleanup tries to 
> clean them up, gets an error, and aborts the kill.
>
> The old whitespace mode used to check to see if it was being called in a 
> read-only buffer, and didn't try to clean up under those circumstances.
>
> I'm using Emacs 23.0.60.1, but as far as I can tell the problem still exists 
> in CVS head.

This problem can be fixed by wrapping the body of whitespace-clean in 
(unless buffer-read-only). I don't know if that fix has problems, but it at 
least works for me.

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