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28.0.50; tramp over scp: text is read only on some apparently random lines

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 44963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44963: 28.0.50; tramp over scp: text is read only on some apparently random lines
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:36:40 +0100

Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

Hi Jean,

> I have noticed that I cannot edit remote files easily with {C-x C-q} as
> when doing it remotely, apparently random lines become read-only, then
> from those lines below I can edit .vim line but not .viminfo and none of
> the subsequent lines. There is no visible pattern to me why I cannot
> edit files in Dired over Tramp scp/ssh
>
> Here below I could edit first line and directory smos.cs-syd.ue but the
>   second line smos.tar.gz is read only and then all
>   drwxr-xr-x 12 admin admin      4096 Nov 26 23:12 smos.cs-syd.eu
>   -rw-r--r--  1 admin admin    247856 Nov 26 23:22 smos.tar.gz
>   drwx------  2 admin admin      4096 Nov 27 00:23 .ssh
>   drwxr-xr-x  3 admin admin      4096 Nov 24  2016 .subversion
>   drwxr-xr-x  3 admin admin      4096 Sep 15 19:03 sync
>   drwx------  3 admin admin      4096 Sep 26 22:46 .telegram-cli
>   drwxr-xr-t  2 admin admin      4096 Oct 24 22:25 tmp
>   -rw-------  1 root  root   26136504 Oct 20  2019 VID_20190324_103021.3gp
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 admin admin      4096 Feb 18  2016 .vim
>   -rw-------  1 admin admin     12853 Jun 10  2018 .viminfo
>   drwx------  2 admin admin      4096 Jan 19  2016 .w3m
>   -rw-r--r--  1 admin admin       631 Oct 31 03:35 .wget-hsts
>   -rw-------  1 admin admin        73 Sep 15 18:55 .Xauthority
>   -rw-r--r--  1 admin admin     47700 Nov  5 04:09 .zcompdump
>   -rw-------  1 admin admin        36 Nov  5 04:10 .zsh_history
>   -rw-r--r--  1 admin admin      1335 Jan 16  2016 .zshrc

Sorry, I don't understand. What do you intend to edit? The directory
buffer? Files in that directory?

Anyway, pls use "emacs -Q", set tramp-verbose to 6, and run your
recipe. Tell us the recipe, and show us the debug buffer.

Best regards, Michael.

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