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

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Message #27 received at 43844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>
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: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:14:07 +0100

Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st> writes:

> Would you recommend packages such as ERC (or dired?) that essentially
> create only read-only buffers to set this such that unconfigured
> defaults don't lead to a user-error?

I'm not sure what you mean here?  Buffers that make text read-only do so
because the person who wrote that mode thinks that's a good design
decision.  As usual, Emacs allows users to override anything if they
want to, and `kill-read-only-ok' is the provided user override.

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