From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:37 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1282834016.22363.1391876553@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87wpr67ezy.fsf@mbork.pl> <837fj49lni.fsf@gnu.org> <83oace96rp.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453433181 29794 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2016 03:26:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:26:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mbork@mbork.pl, johnw@gnu.org, mt_void@warpmail.net, 6922@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 22 04:26:09 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 1aMSMS-0004fr-IZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:26:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSMR-0004Id-HK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:26:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46635) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSMN-0004IU-C8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSMM-0005EH-HE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSMM-0005EB-DK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSMM-00084m-7H for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:26:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:26:02 +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=B6922.145343310330978 (code B ref 6922); Fri, 22 Jan 2016 03:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6922) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Jan 2016 03:25:03 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56872 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSLP-00083a-8Y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54670) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSLN-000833-KS for 6922@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSLD-0004Xl-IR for 6922@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSL0-0004S6-Kd; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aMSKz-0006ZL-TJ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:24:37 -0500 In-reply-to: <83oace96rp.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:33:46 +0200) 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:111842 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.