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#43844
27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*
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Reported by: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:35:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: notabug
Found in version 27.1
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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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 <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
> Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> 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
>
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*Corwin*
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