From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Inhibiting read-only Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:04:08 +0300 Message-ID: <8338scpvcn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838v24pyhl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371747856 4872 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2013 17:04:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 20 19:04:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1UpiHN-0000aa-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:04:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UpiHN-0006fx-JC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46763) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UpiHF-0006br-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:04:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UpiHA-0004tH-DH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:54055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UpiHA-0004sp-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MOP00B00AZOAJ00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:03:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MOP00BWXBEMAH20@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:03:58 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160758 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:59:20 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Can you explain once more why putting the read-only property on all > > the text except those parts you want to be modifiable is not what you > > want? > > Because `C-x C-q' doesn't work, and because copying/yanking read-only > text is annoying. I don't see why the former would be a problem. If you really want it to work, you can bind it to a command that removes the read-only properties. As for the latter, can you elaborate about the annoyance, since read-only is in yank-excluded-properties?