Hi Lars, Apologies for not having followed-up on this and thank you for lending it your attention. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:37 PM Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Noam Postavsky writes: > > > I think you just need to set the kill-read-only-ok option. > > > > kill-read-only-ok is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’. > > Its value is nil > > > > Documentation: > > Non-nil means don’t signal an error for killing read-only text. > > So I think this works as designed, and I'm closing this bug report. > I disagree this behavior makes sense. Should it be the users responsibility to set this variable (in some hook? which?) for any buffers that default to read-only? Again, thanks! > > -- > (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) > bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no > -- *Corwin* *corwin@bru.st *