Re: completion should not inherit read-only property

[Kevin Rodgers]

T. V. Raman wrote:
> I've noticed that recently, completion has started inheriting the
> read-only property.
>
> Test: if you have a string in a read-only buffer
> e.g. foobarbasbar 
>
> and you then type foo and complete it to foobarbasbar  using
> command `complete' then the completed string ends up read-only. 

What is this command `complete'?  What major and minor modes are
you using and how do you invoke `complete'?

> This is an irritant because if this happens to you in a mail
> composition buffer (I use vm) then sending mail fails because
> part of the buffer is read-only --- you end up having to eval
> the appropriate lisp expression to remove the read-only property
> with something like:
> (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
>     (put-text-property start end
>                        'read-only nil))

--
Kevin