GNU bug report logs - #43460
26.3; Package install fails if read-only-mode hooked to find-file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pablo Aguado <aguadopd <at> hotmail.com>

Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 23:13:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 43460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Pablo Aguado <aguadopd <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 43460 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43460: 26.3; Package install fails if read-only-mode hooked
 to find-file
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:03:21 +0200

Pablo Aguado <aguadopd <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> I have set the following to always open files in read-only-mode:
>     (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'read-only-mode)
>
> When I tried to install a new package through package-install, I got
> (buffer-read-only #<buffer adaptive-wrap-autoloads.el>)

I've now made package install autoload generation ignore find-file-hook
in Emacs 28, which seems to fix the problem there.

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