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23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect

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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mt_void <at> warpmail.net, Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>, rms <at> gnu.org, 6922 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6922: 23.1; Setting read-only property in an overlay has no effect
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:53:00 -0800

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> If you are arguing for having a feature that marks some portion of buffer
> text read-only, then we already have that: the 'read-only' text property.
> The issue in this discussion is whether we should _also_ have a similar
> overlay property.

That said, I think the right way to implement clock-masking in Org would be to
use an overlay whose existence is tied to the clock. A text-property might be
incompatible with the way Org uses font-locking.

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