Subject: Re: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:55:19 +0200

> From: John Wiegley <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Marcin Borkowski <[email-masked]>,  Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:04:06 -0500
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > What is the current consensus? should we adjust the documentation or fix the
> > code? John? Richard?
> 
> Eli, can you fix to code to allows read-only overlays? Once you do, I'd like
> to write a mask.el module for GNU ELPA to support masked editing.

I'll take a look.  Of course, if someone wants to beat me to it, feel
free.