From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:34:34 -0400 Message-ID: <5191A2BA.7080108@mousecar.com> References: <5190B6C2.3060801@mousecar.com> <83y5bi97sp.fsf@gnu.org> <51911A2B.6070100@mousecar.com> <83r4ha959c.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368498905 20236 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 02:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 02:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 04:35:04 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 1Uc54x-00041z-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 04:35:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc54w-0004Eo-J9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc54k-0004Ej-4m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc54j-0005hf-Ay for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.194]:63920) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uc54h-0005hN-Nv; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MTAtC-1V4AJp1EHO-00S3Rb; Mon, 13 May 2013 22:34:45 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <83r4ha959c.fsf@gnu.org> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:YdtKkQJO8iJ74i6NOn/smbaR1Z+dsm+/jr9HjKbp0Vh PrNdhK37LksvxNFSv+gF0vpB7kG6KGeQfHOhYe70jsesIcSEcz Ay6zPYNbmDAT6plOyz+rSOPvdhzc3fz5b4y5h81nsXciM82Jp9 DjCcddHjRywWPtV2Fgax9w4dATuEPFcQ3bYFnICUSeJ5B8Nexc 1zqXALP9Jp4qT4QnxmflNmDcMCQMoScNWzhMVcub2HdY86nph/ +BRKZVFnfS2wsWfawXfFnM9AukFDng5bnmlSMRbYq2/wdyvYy2 AHEsWdLskqqKTN26p7peeoFpu8T70cWMzeMVZjoZ+hyf/hzMMb IX59yNo9rKEl4XnPN3r4AiYgvrpcAPPhDgIBm6f7o X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 74.208.4.194 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:90734 Archived-At: On 05/13/2013 01:08 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 12:51:55 -0400 >> From: ken >> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >> >> >>> What does Emacs say if you type this: >>> >>> M-: major-mode RET >>> >>> in the buffer that visits this file you aren't allowed to edit? >>> >> >> image-mode > > That explains everything, doesn't it? Your file has a file-name > extension that matches some image file, so Emacs enters the Image mode > for it, and doesn't let you edit images (because image-editing > capabilities are not yet part of Emacs). > > Solution: remove that extension from auto-mode-alist, and Bob's your > uncle. Cool. That's what I want. So I guess I put something in ~/.emacs... but what?