Subject: Re: bug#68648: 30.0.50; read-only-mode-hook's are not executed when buffer-read-only is t

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:00:47 +0200

On January 21, 2024 10:35:26 PM GMT+02:00, "Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> I noticed when opening a file which isn't readable that
> read-only-mode-hooks are not executed.
> 
> 1. (add-hook 'read-only-mode-hook (lambda () (print "foobar")))
> 2. open file that is read-only
> 3. foobar should be print but isn't.

That's because read-only-mode is not entered when you visit a write-protected file.  Maybe we should call the hook anyway, I'm not sure.  We don't honor view-read-only either in these cases, for the same reason.