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: open-rectangle Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:21:11 +0200 Message-ID: <468104B7.8090600@gmx.at> References: <200706261411.22012.andreas.roehler@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182860434 23904 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2007 12:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: didier@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 26 14:20:33 2007 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 1I3A22-0005Sn-9H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3A21-0001eW-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3A1x-0001eC-FU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I3A1v-0001ba-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I3A1v-0001bK-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I3A1v-0000Sx-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jun 2007 12:20:22 -0000 Original-Received: from N733P030.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.35.158]) [62.47.35.158] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 26 Jun 2007 14:20:22 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/8LDEfncL8dAFEy4u/4QN/frzen3YvLUWt5Notzw 48mFpbpT1DN+RY User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200706261411.22012.andreas.roehler@online.de> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:73876 Archived-At: > Intention is to copy extracts from *w3m*-buffer with > `copy-rectangle-to-register' > > However, calling `open-rectangle' I get an error, > because *w3m*-buffer is read-only. Toggling this it > works. How do you manage to call `open-rectangle' here? `copy-rectangle-to-register' calls `extract-rectangle' which doesn't modify the buffer. > > Question: Is this star, which causes the error in the > interactive-form "*r\nP" of `open-rectangle' necessary? Yes. Because `open-rectangle' may modify the buffer.