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bug#43844: 27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#43844: 27.1; Mouse-3 avoid "Buffer is read-only" *patch*
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:02:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> Should it be the users responsibility to set this variable (in some
> hook? which?) for any buffers that default to read-only?

Yes.  Some buffers have read-only text, and killing that text will
signal an error (by design), whether you kill the text using the mouse
or with `C-w'.  If the user wants to be able to kill the text, then the
user should set that variable.

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