From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:33:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83oace96rp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1282834016.22363.1391876553@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87wpr67ezy.fsf@mbork.pl> <837fj49lni.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453397663 24888 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2016 17:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mbork@mbork.pl, johnw@gnu.org, mt_void@warpmail.net, 6922@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 18:34:14 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7a-000209-19 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:34:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7Z-0006hT-4x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:34:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7U-0006h3-Qc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7T-0001Yh-FN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40213) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7T-0001Yd-Bl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7T-0002Sq-4g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:34:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:34:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6922 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6922-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6922.14533976369443 (code B ref 6922); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:34:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6922) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Jan 2016 17:33:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56664 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7M-0002SF-FF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35732) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7L-0002S4-Pv for 6922@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ7C-0001UY-5O for 6922@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49080) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ74-0001TR-Os; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:38 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4440 helo=HOME-C4E4A596F7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aMJ6x-0000lA-MJ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 12:33:32 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:02:19 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:111829 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: mbork@mbork.pl, johnw@gnu.org, 6922@debbugs.gnu.org, > mt_void@warpmail.net > Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:02:19 -0500 > > I have not been looking at this issue. Do I need to? There was an old discussion of this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-01/msg01598.html In that discussion, you said: It is no accident that read-only works only as a text property. It is tested for in textprop.c only as a text property. 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'm asking if you still think the same. If so, perhaps you could try explaining why you do (in that old discussion, you said it was hard for you to put this into words). Thanks.