Andy> At 01:20 PM 4/28/98 -0400, Greg Klanderman wrote: Andy> Well, in theory I still wanted cvs support - so I could do diffs and Andy> the like, it was more the read-only file that I didn't want. IMHO its a Andy> bit presumptuous for cvs to make the file read-only based on the fact Andy> that you can't change the backend. I believe this is almost never what Andy> you want. This does not happen to me (with and without -q). Check the actual permissions on the files in your working directory and try running xemacs -q, you may have some setting that's wrong. Oscar