From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: read-only overlays Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:12:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4795F9C1.9080404@gmx.at> References: <4795169E.5060704@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201011150 27045 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 14:12:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:12:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9oYW4gQm9ja2fDpXJk?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 15:12:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHJrI-0001MD-2n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJqs-0002km-8F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:11:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJpX-00021B-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJpV-00020R-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHJpV-00020M-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHJpV-0002b9-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:21 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2008 14:10:19 -0000 Original-Received: from N765P026.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.39.154]) [62.47.39.154] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 22 Jan 2008 15:10:19 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+/MC995n2/oAJqyhvMh/a6B0vQo87lk5ZhNk6JK2 4PTsIClPlNVEaU User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87301 Archived-At: > The manual's description of `inhibit-read-only'[1] does say that > > "Read-only characters in a buffer are those that have non-`nil' > `read-only' properties (either text properties or overlay > properties)." > > But (overlay-put o 'read-only t) has no effect. It's a plain mystery, compare http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg00041.html