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From: | ken |
Subject: | Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be |
Date: | Mon, 13 May 2013 22:26:01 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130402 Thunderbird/17.0.5 |
n 05/13/2013 02:15 PM Bob Proulx wrote:
ken wrote:If I do "M-x text-mode", it's still not possible to edit the file... I still get the message "Text is read-only".Use: C-x C-q Which means: C-x C-q runs the command read-only-mode Change whether the current buffer is read-only. Good for an individual one-off named file that you don't normally want to edit. Bob
This puts the buffer *into* read-only mode but doing the same again doesn't toggle out of it. This isn't how the documentation says it's supposed to work, but that's what happens.
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