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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: Annoying message "Text is read only" |
Date: | Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:57:29 +0200 |
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> 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? I think that the message "Text is read-only" is a bit more helpful then just beeping since just a beep would not distinguish between this case and the case where just some letters are accepted. (A letter might be bound to a command in sometimes.)
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