From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66699 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Set temp files (viewing attachments) read-only? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:50:23 +1000 Organization: Cybersource: Australia's Leading Linux and Open Source Solutions Company Message-ID: <87myo68gsg.fsf@rimspace.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207540349 3983 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 03:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 03:52:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15183@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 07 05:53:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JiiPk-0004Bf-HI for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JiiOW-0004R1-P6; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JiiOU-0004Qk-65 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JiiON-0001Gt-2y for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JiiOW-00060q-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:51:44 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JiiOK-0005kg-Qn for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:51:32 +0000 Original-Received: from nat20.cyber.com.au ([203.7.155.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:51:32 +0000 Original-Received: from daniel by nat20.cyber.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:51:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nat20.cyber.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hOZpzeFMLw6HmEOe8lECxCopdNw= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66699 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > when a user views an attachment, modifies and saves it with the helper > application (say OpenOffice), after quitting the helper application > Gnus deletes the temp file. I.e. all modifications made by the user > are lost. (Similar to Mozilla: [1]) > > Setting the temp file read-only[2] should make it clear, that editing > it might be a bad idea. It also forces the user to choose a different > file name or location when saving. What do you think? I think that this would be a good idea. Regards, Daniel