From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:57:29 +0200 Message-ID: <48CF74F9.8070207@gmail.com> References: <87tzcgbo7y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221555498 19892 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2008 08:58:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 16 10:59:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KfWOq-0007tj-Hy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:59:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32891 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfWNo-0004YK-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfWNN-0004Xb-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfWNM-0004Wm-3Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56777 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfWNL-0004Wj-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:55146) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfWNL-0006fY-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:65155 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KfWNJ-0007y4-8B; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:57:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87tzcgbo7y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080915-0, 2008-09-15), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KfWNJ-0007y4-8B. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KfWNJ-0007y4-8B 4d04289eaa78a433b4703e932c5062c6 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57683 Archived-At: > Davin Pearson writes: > >> When I execute M-x find-file it says Find >> File: >> >> Why I press cursor left a few times and then try to press a key, it >> says: "Text is read only". Surely a more natural behavour would be >> to beep and not allow the user to type in that character in the >> first place. What gives? I think that the message "Text is read-only" is a bit more helpful then just beeping since just a beep would not distinguish between this case and the case where just some letters are accepted. (A letter might be bound to a command in sometimes.)