From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Annoying message "Text is read only"
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:44:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d304c6cd-3e2e-4438-b86f-c7e30f78f5e3@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.19335.1221550525.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sep 16, 7:29 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> This is a traditional default; try:
>
> M-x customize-variable <RET> minibuffer-prompt-properties <RET>
>
> Enable the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes, which will
> implement what you expect. (Well, no beep, but you can't move over the
> text any longer.)
The following code appears to work:
(setq minibuffer-prompt-properties (remove 'read-only minibuffer-
prompt-properties))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-16 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-16 5:52 Annoying message "Text is read only" Davin Pearson
2008-09-16 6:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-16 7:29 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-09-16 8:57 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
[not found] ` <mailman.19335.1221550525.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-16 8:44 ` Davin Pearson [this message]
2008-09-16 13:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2008-09-16 20:38 ` Xah
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