Re: Inhibiting read-only

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't see why the former would be a problem.  If you really want it
> to work, you can bind it to a command that removes the read-only
> properties.

Sure.  But why would we?  A read-only buffer is a simple and
understandable interface that gives us this already.

> As for the latter, can you elaborate about the annoyance, since
> read-only is in yank-excluded-properties?

Oh, is that a new thing?  Then that's not an annoyance (any more).

Having to re-apply properties to ensure that we still are read-only
after inserting text (modulo stickiness) is pretty annoying.

Being able to use a read-only buffer, but have some text be modifiable,
seems like a simple, obvious and symmetrical thing to do.

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