From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Problem with simple script to clean out an ERC buffer Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:21:54 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528233647 25112 195.159.176.226 (5 Jun 2018 21:20:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 21:20:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (cygwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 05 23:20:43 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJNd-0006Hi-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:20:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49185 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJPk-0002uO-PN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42887) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJPA-0002t8-TB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:22:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJP4-0006uU-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35001 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJP4-0006uE-GO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQJMs-0005Q9-Qb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 23:19:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:lsLxQH8K6f8tXKdHIPoc53nhuV0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116977 Archived-At: I've put this together: (defun clearERCbuffer() (interactive) (previous-line) (end-of-line) (set-mark(point)) (beginning-of-buffer) (exchange-point-and-mark) ; (set-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) nil nil ) (delete-region (point-min) (point-max))) (bind-key (kbd "H-C-c") 'clearERCbuffer) So I go into an ERC buffer, put the cursor at the prompt, hit H-C-c, and it always tells me that "Text is read-only" But, if I manually execute the commands above, and press C-w when I get to the delete-region command, it works fine. I tried the set-text-properties to remove any read-only attributes, but that makes no difference. What stupidly obvious item am I overlooking? Thanks, Dave in Hudson, FL