From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87tzcgbo7y.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221558221 28950 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2008 09:43:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:43:41 +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 11:44:36 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 1KfX6n-0003L9-OL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:44:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KfX5m-0006sx-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:43:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-Distribution: bofh Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.234.132.53 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1221554691 19968 127.0.0.1 (16 Sep 2008 08:44:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:44:51 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.234.132.53; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162339 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:57685 Archived-At: On Sep 16, 7:29=A0pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: > This is a traditional default; try: > > =A0 =A0M-x customize-variable minibuffer-prompt-properties > > Enable the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes, which will > implement what you expect. =A0(Well, no beep, but you can't move over the > text any longer.) The following code appears to work: (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties (remove 'read-only minibuffer- prompt-properties))