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29.0.50; EWW: kill-word (M-d) in input field gives "Text is read-only"

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 29.0.50; EWW: kill-word (M-d) in input field gives "Text is read-only"
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 22:00:18 +0200

Severity: minor

Text in a EWW input field is sometimes incorrectly treated as read-only.

0. emacs -Q
1. M-x eww RET foo RET
2. C-n C-n        ;; so that point is on "foo"
3. M-d            ;; kill-word

"foo" is not deleted, instead I get this error message:

    kill-region: Text is read-only: #<buffer *eww*>

The expected result is that "foo" is deleted in the search field.
I've tested this in Emacs 27.1 too, and the result is the same.

(If I type `C-d M-d' in the recipe above instead, I get no warning.)


In GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
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Message #8 received at 58401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58401 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58401: 29.0.50; EWW: kill-word (M-d) in input field gives
 "Text is read-only"
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 10:21:52 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> (If I type `C-d M-d' in the recipe above instead, I get no warning.)

Yes -- and if I delete the "foo" first and then type in "foo" again and
then hit `M-d' to delete it, it works fine.

So sounds like perhaps some text properties are leaking or something...
(I haven't tried to debug further.)

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