From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 70587@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70587: More buffers that ought to be read-only
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 10:58:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o79w5tsv.fsf@zephyr.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87le506i07.n.fsf@jidanni.org> (Dan Jacobson's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:16:08 +0800")
Hello,
On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 09:16am +08, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> diff-default-read-only is a variable defined in ‘diff-mode.el’.
> Its value is nil
> If non-nil, ‘diff-mode’ buffers default to being read-only.
>
> That's funny, it seems they are already read-only, without setting this
> variable. Maybe this variable can be retired.
It's very useful to have them editable sometimes.
> The *compilation* buffer of M-x compile is also read-only. Good.
>
> But how about *Shell Command Output*, and errors buffers, they should be
> read-only by default too.
>
> Why? Because tons of times we realize for the last half hour we have
> been editing our program's output buffer instead of the source code.
No, it is very useful to be able to edit them.
It would make sense to have a customisation variable to change it.
--
Sean Whitton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-26 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-26 1:16 bug#70587: More buffers that ought to be read-only Dan Jacobson
2024-04-26 9:58 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2024-04-26 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-26 11:02 ` Dan Jacobson
2024-04-26 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-27 7:24 ` Dan Jacobson
2024-04-27 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-27 8:15 ` bug#70602: Add hooks to control *Shell Command Output* Dan Jacobson
2024-04-28 3:02 ` bug#70587: More buffers that ought to be read-only Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-28 4:26 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-28 5:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-28 9:04 ` Dan Jacobson
2024-04-28 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-04-28 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-28 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-04 11:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-04 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-04 21:40 ` Dan Jacobson
2024-05-05 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-28 20:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-29 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-30 9:56 ` Dan Jacobson
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