From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: helpful messages whensoever one hits a wrong key Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:43:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877j3qrmsc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150242220 4144 80.91.229.2 (13 Jun 2006 23:43:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 01:43:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXn-0001cd-Or for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:43:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXn-00038N-Ab for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXl-000380-In for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXj-00037o-Qw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXj-00037l-Ii for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FqIgm-0005dn-FH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FqIXd-0001b3-OH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from linus003.dd.chalmers.se ([129.16.117.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from bojohan+news by linus003.dd.chalmers.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:43:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: linus003.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XUnzo52ctIh4KfKRuUFcH70fCNE= X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15149 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > I dunno, maybe showing a huge help message immediately would suck, > but the general idea of having a buffer/region-specific alternative > error message for trying to modify read-only text would be a good > thing You can have a region-somewhat-specific error message by using a string-valued `read-only' text property (in Emacs 22): (insert (propertize "xxx" 'read-only "Bork Bork Bork!")) An attempt to modify the text displays Text is read-only: "Bork Bork Bork!" This feature seems to be undocumented. -- Johan Bockgård