Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be

[ken]

n 05/13/2013 02:15 PM Bob Proulx wrote:
> ken wrote:
> > If I do "M-x text-mode", it's still not possible to edit the file...
> > I still get the message "Text is read-only".
>
> Use:
>
>    C-x C-q
>
> Which means:
>
>    C-x C-q runs the command read-only-mode
>    Change whether the current buffer is read-only.
>
> Good for an individual one-off named file that you don't normally want
> to edit.
>
> Bob

This puts the buffer *into* read-only mode but doing the same again 
doesn't toggle out of it.  This isn't how the documentation says it's 
supposed to work, but that's what happens.