Re: Annoying message "Text is read only"

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

> Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> When I execute M-x find-file it says Find
>> File:
>>
>> Why I press cursor left a few times and then try to press a key, it
>> says: "Text is read only".  Surely a more natural behavour would be
>> to beep and not allow the user to type in that character in the
>> first place.  What gives?

I think that the message "Text is read-only" is a bit more helpful then
just beeping since just a beep would not distinguish between this case
and the case where just some letters are accepted. (A letter might be
bound to a command in sometimes.)