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

[ken]

On 05/15/2013 03:28 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 23:17:44 -0600
> >
> > ....
>
> If the request is that any *.gif file whose signature doesn't match be
> rejected by image-mode, then I suggest to file a feature request bug
> using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET".

As said earlier, this problem first appeared after my last emacs 
upgrade, and this after editing this same file for, perhaps ten, perhaps 
more years.  It would seem then that someone upstream decided already 
not to make magic-mode-alist the default.