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


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:38:14 -0400
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In article <mailman.25692.1368498372.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:

> 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.

It does in most buffers. There's something weird going on in that 
particular buffer. It sounds like it's setting read-only text properties 
on parts of the buffer -- is that part of image editing mode?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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