From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatically read-only status
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:49:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ei6r9chy.fsf@escher.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d8cca8e5-7beb-491e-a062-15a09c8e4e11@r19g2000prm.googlegroups.com
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:47:45 -0800 (PST) Kejia柯嘉 <w.kejia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> I know C-x C-q makes into read-only mode. My question is how to
> activate the read-only mode after n minutes idle.
You could evaluate this:
(setq my-ro-timer (run-with-idle-timer 180 t 'toggle-read-only 1))
This will make the current buffer read-only every time Emacs is idle for
three minutes. To stop this, evaluate (cancel-timer my-ro-timer). Type
`C-h f run-with-idle-timer' for more information.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 13:49 UTC|newest]
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2011-02-28 21:47 automatically read-only status Kejia柯嘉
2011-03-01 13:49 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
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2011-03-02 15:14 ` Kejia柯嘉
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