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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: didier@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: open-rectangle
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:21:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <468104B7.8090600@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706261411.22012.andreas.roehler@online.de>

 > Intention is to copy extracts from *w3m*-buffer with
 > `copy-rectangle-to-register'
 >
 > However, calling `open-rectangle' I get an error,
 > because *w3m*-buffer is read-only. Toggling this it
 > works.

How do you manage to call `open-rectangle' here?
`copy-rectangle-to-register' calls `extract-rectangle' which doesn't
modify the buffer.

 >
 > Question: Is this star, which causes the error in the
 >  interactive-form "*r\nP" of `open-rectangle' necessary?

Yes.  Because `open-rectangle' may modify the buffer.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-26 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-26 12:11 open-rectangle Andreas Röhler
2007-06-26 12:21 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2007-06-26 16:02   ` open-rectangle Andreas Röhler
2007-06-26 18:29   ` open-rectangle Andreas Röhler

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