Subject: Re: bug#43844: 27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:02:26 +0100

Corwin Brust <[email-masked]> writes:

> Should it be the users responsibility to set this variable (in some
> hook? which?) for any buffers that default to read-only?

Yes.  Some buffers have read-only text, and killing that text will
signal an error (by design), whether you kill the text using the mouse
or with `C-w'.  If the user wants to be able to kill the text, then the
user should set that variable.

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