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27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*

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From: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 43844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#43844: 27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:20:15 -0600

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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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