From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: mbork@mbork.pl, johnw@gnu.org, mt_void@warpmail.net,
6922@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:37:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oace6p4r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1aMSKz-0006ZL-TJ@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:37 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: mbork@mbork.pl, johnw@gnu.org, 6922@debbugs.gnu.org,
> mt_void@warpmail.net
> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:37 -0500
>
> > I am not sure that a read-only property on an overlay makes much sense.
> > It is a strange thing to do. So I will fix the documentation.
>
> I don't remember why I wrote that. It was 6 years ago. My guess is
> that I considered it strange to make certain text read-only
> temporarily. If it isn't supposed to change, it should never change,
> right?
I see your point, thanks.
What do others think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-22 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-26 14:46 bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect MT
2011-12-10 12:09 ` Johan Bockgård
2016-01-18 21:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-20 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 3:02 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-21 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-22 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-22 10:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-22 12:58 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-07 22:24 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-07 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 5:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-18 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-18 18:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 16:04 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 17:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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