Permission bug in Edit[This]File()

[Carlo Hogeveen]

Speaking of ...

If I use EditFile() or EditThisFile() to open a file that I do not have permission for, like
C:\swapfile.sys
\\wsl$\Debian\etc\sudoers
\\wsl$\Ubuntu\etc\sudoers
then these statements properly give an "Access denied: ..." warning, but then open an empty buffer "++noname++N" anyway, and return
its bufferid.

In practice I run into this when using WSL, and then it is minor annoyance.

Carlo

[S.E. Mitchell]

Yeah, this one bugs me too.
The reason for it:
EditFile() creates buffers for all the filenames passed to it.
Then EditFile() positions to the first buffer it created, and calls loadfile().
And if loadfile() fails, then it needs to delete the just created
buffer, and (I guess) go to the previous buffer.
And so that seemed kind of hard, and I wasn't sure of the correct
action, so I punted, and it does what it does now.
I will revisit this, and see what I can do.

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