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Re: Annoying message "Text is read only"
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:26:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:
> When I execute M-x find-file it says Find
> File:
>
> Why I press cursor left a few times and then try to press a key, it
> says: "Text is read only". Surely a more natural behavour would be
> to beep and not allow the user to type in that character in the
> first place. What gives?
How do you propose to do that?
Perhaps using the protocol hinted at by:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/taporsnap_25/punch_tcp_ip.jpg
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