From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:38:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <5190B6C2.3060801@mousecar.com> <83y5bi97sp.fsf@gnu.org> <51911A2B.6070100@mousecar.com> <51912A18.9000603@mousecar.com> <20130513181514.GB573@hysteria.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368499411 24334 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 02:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 02:43:31 +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 04:43:28 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 1Uc5D6-0007sK-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 04:43:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc5D5-0007Pv-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:43:27 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.109.166 with SMTP id ht6mr163805wib.0.1368499095385; Mon, 13 May 2013 19:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h2no2505144wiw.1!news-out.google.com!hg5ni108221wib.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="1492"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+cnvefovSGMjawqp3OmJY8" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DqnV7At6m52fiIQQ55WaqLJnNqo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198471 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:42:43 -0400 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:90738 Archived-At: In article , ken wrote: > 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. It does in most buffers. There's something weird going on in that particular buffer. It sounds like it's setting read-only text properties on parts of the buffer -- is that part of image editing mode? -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***