Apologies for not having followed-up on this and thank you for lending it your attention.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:37 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen <
larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> I think you just need to set the kill-read-only-ok option.
>
> kill-read-only-ok is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
> Its value is nil
>
> Documentation:
> Non-nil means don’t signal an error for killing read-only text.
So I think this works as designed, and I'm closing this bug report.
I disagree this behavior makes sense.
Should it be the users responsibility to set this variable (in some hook? which?) for any buffers that default to read-only?
Again, thanks!
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