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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Clearning a keymap completely
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:53:55 -0400
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> 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?

The traditional way to do that is with suppress-keymap or by deriving
from special-mode.


        Stefan