From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inhibiting read-only
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:44:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31u7xi32u.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv4nct7srr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:25:38 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:
> LMI> I'd like to make the eww buffers read-only, but leave text input
> LMI> fields editable. (And then do processing of the alterations with
> LMI> `insert-behind-hooks' or `after-change-functions'.)
>> That sounds like how the Customize buffers work, yes?
>
> Exactly, they set buffer-read-only to nil but then use
> a before-change-function to signal an error when trying to modify
> a non-text-widget area.
I like `read-only' buffers -- they have an obvious interface. If the
user decides to switch read-only off (which I sometimes do in otherwise
non-editable buffers) to do some weird ad-hoc editing, there's a
standard, convenient key-stroke for that.
So if there were a `inhibit-read-only' text property, we could avoid
doing all these tricks with `before-change-function' and the like -- we
could just make the buffer read-only, put the text property on the bits
that aren't read-only, and we'd be done. And there would be less user
confusion.
I can have a go at implementing this if it sounds like a workable idea,
although that part of the code is completely unfamiliar to me...
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 15:49 Inhibiting read-only Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 16:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-19 16:07 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-19 16:10 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-19 16:24 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-19 16:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 17:17 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-19 16:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-19 16:48 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-19 16:49 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-19 17:11 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 17:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-19 19:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 17:44 ` Jambunathan K
2013-06-19 19:50 ` James Cloos
2013-06-19 20:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-19 21:29 ` James Cloos
2013-06-19 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-20 8:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2013-06-20 9:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-06-20 9:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-20 15:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 17:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-20 17:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-20 17:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-20 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-21 6:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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