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

From: John Wiegley <[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.

Thanks,
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