From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:26:41 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87tzcgbo7y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221547308 27923 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2008 06:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:41:48 +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 08:42:43 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 1KfUGo-00056g-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfUFn-0002eQ-Pt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:41:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tbAxjVK5PiVPL79wxANT38/AICU= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Sep 2008 08:26:41 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1221546401 news-1.free.fr 1127 88.182.134.169:44455 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162331 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:57674 Archived-At: 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? 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 -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ HEALTH WARNING: Care should be taken when lifting this product, since its mass, and thus its weight, is dependent on its velocity relative to the user.