From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:29:43 +1000 Organization: I know I put it down here, somewhere. Message-ID: <87d4j4tuoo.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <87tzcgbo7y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221550597 5045 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2008 07:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:36:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 16 09:37:31 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 1KfV7h-0004G4-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:37:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49323 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfV6g-0001Jz-LG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:36:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfV5m-00010v-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KfV5l-00010L-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42688 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfV5l-00010H-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:40361) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfV5k-0000SF-Mu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KfV5h-0001WX-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:35:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KfV5Z-0002ZT-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:35:09 +0000 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:35:09 +0000 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:35:09 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-Distribution: bofh Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dQjZNriCmzDcIOLC6OANK7NCze8= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:57675 Archived-At: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > 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? This is a traditional default; try: M-x customize-variable minibuffer-prompt-properties Enable the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes, which will implement what you expect. (Well, no beep, but you can't move over the text any longer.) > How do you propose to do that? > Perhaps using the protocol hinted at by: > http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/taporsnap_25/punch_tcp_ip.jpg You know, when you are insultingly smug toward people asking reasonable questions it /really/ helps to be right. Otherwise, you know, you pretty much look like a fool. HTH, HAND. Daniel