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bug#65913: with-help-window arranges for 'inhibit-read-only' to be set t


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#65913: with-help-window arranges for 'inhibit-read-only' to be set to 't'
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:04:31 -0700

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I disagree.  The use of inhibit-read-only is an implementation detail
> of with-help-window (and of many other functions in Emacs); mentioning
> it in the doc string will IMO have no useful purpose.
>
> The doc string of "C-x C-q" (read-only-mode) does mention
> inhibit-read-only, which is I think a much more reasonable place for a
> reference to that variable.
>
> Stefan, WDYT?

I tend to agree with you.





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