From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:01 -0400 Message-ID: <5191A0B9.2030602@mousecar.com> References: <5190B6C2.3060801@mousecar.com> <83y5bi97sp.fsf@gnu.org> <51911A2B.6070100@mousecar.com> <51912A18.9000603@mousecar.com> <20130513181514.GB573@hysteria.proulx.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368498388 16464 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 02:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 02:26:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 04:26:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1Uc4wY-0008Cc-5U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 04:26:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52510 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc4wX-00024V-PR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58738) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc4wM-0001zE-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc4wK-0003Hb-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:61483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc4wK-0003HH-NV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MC4JE-1UkqMf1tU8-009ZgI; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <20130513181514.GB573@hysteria.proulx.com> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:+0Wca3YI3tZHVJzmUiNJUjSKOv+VaJdw0yZg7p0ocLD idjU8WrU6uFitoaRIrM+tgWfm2btsI7hhzZFoeRS0PjAQoY25W EUOrTGNx5F2apXWYLuTq3z2hfgW10mtvKZB/2Ssgryw7SXhZnC pqDMpd5eUFDVnGo1bbKACTd9tBGPN4lI2GHDxXkBGyD0WT9U/H aPHbOla6CRsuG19oUEDhAEx5WpHAnLtYnldUJxfpKP7faLS4Rk oBVwumQ9gVDPg3VP66gVPKTab/kSes7CLNyMHDAZFA7tip0n6s U2cvfl8sBj7Zpp+aYhO/eHEiRtCpOx2ruakrw0WiebPFagZr9k X8YU+Q6+9NUc4rm2bF5ND1r+X2PmsteCPhmjwxsn7 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.195 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90733 Archived-At: n 05/13/2013 02:15 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > ken wrote: >> If I do "M-x text-mode", it's still not possible to edit the file... >> I still get the message "Text is read-only". > > Use: > > C-x C-q > > Which means: > > C-x C-q runs the command read-only-mode > Change whether the current buffer is read-only. > > Good for an individual one-off named file that you don't normally want > to edit. > > Bob > This puts the buffer *into* read-only mode but doing the same again doesn't toggle out of it. This isn't how the documentation says it's supposed to work, but that's what happens.