On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:32, Chris Velevitch wrote: > When using vim 6.1 on RH 8.0 to edit a read only file, if you modify > the file and save the changes with :w! and continue editing, the file > permissions are still read only and all subsequent save of changes, > each time, require the use of :w! . > > I would have expected the file permissions to be permanently changed > to read/write after the first save. Is this a reasonable behaviour? Is > there an option to make vim behave this way?
vim temporarily overrides the read only attribute (assuming it can) and then writes a new copy. It then returns the file to the original setting which is most likely what you want. Yes, this is entirely reasonable. All definitions vary :-) KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
