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From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Clearning a keymap completely
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 21:03:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BA004109-F257-4CD0-9750-93A3E1679640@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHCj4z6HcKUNGME_5UCz2ZzLR7-dyLaSeHGBRu+tKKYOzxDaqQ@mail.gmail.com>

> Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to remove all the self-insert commands in a buffer. I want to
> be able to insert text into the buffer through emacs lisp but don't
> want the user to be able to insert text. How can this be done?

Just make the buffer read only, and then let-bind inhibit-read-only
to t where necessary in your Lisp. 

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Read-Only-Buffers.html

Hope that helps

        John


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-05  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-04 21:40 Clearning a keymap completely Narendra Joshi
2016-09-04 22:27 ` Søren Pilgård
2016-09-05  3:54 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-05  4:03 ` John Mastro [this message]
2016-09-05  6:27   ` Narendra Joshi
2016-09-05  7:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-09-06 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.1893.1473362103.22741.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-09-09  8:41 ` Ralf Fassel
2016-09-09  9:04 ` Joost Kremers

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