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On 9 Apr 2002, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Maybe read-only is special...?
> Does it ever make sense to yank a read-only property into a buffer?

Does it ever make sense to consider read-only as a property of text--any 
text at all?  If not, perhaps read-only should not be a text property, 
but an overlay.