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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2000-08-13 06:09:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2000-08-13 06:09:11 +0000 |
| commit | a9fff30638e17919a0457ea276f1c6d430ddd50c (patch) | |
| tree | 6e970820ba7f346f7a12688b748f5eef0a915cf8 /man | |
| parent | 8c1d7d602ea03c7aa0ac8f2aae5ed42ca1f3bbdd (diff) | |
| download | emacs-a9fff30638e17919a0457ea276f1c6d430ddd50c.tar.gz | |
(Misc Buffer): Document kill-read-only-ok.
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/buffers.texi | 4 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog index ac648e1d552..00b07f23420 100644 --- a/man/ChangeLog +++ b/man/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +2000-08-13 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> + + * killing.texi (Killing): Document kill-read-only-ok. + + * buffers.texi (Misc Buffer): Likewise + +2000-08-11 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> + + * widget.texi (Top): Add Index in the menu. + (many nodes): Add index entries. + (Index): New node. + 2000-08-08 Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org> * faq.texi (Disabling backups): Replace reference to diff --git a/man/buffers.texi b/man/buffers.texi index e73b9fc8d93..f38eba47431 100644 --- a/man/buffers.texi +++ b/man/buffers.texi @@ -160,7 +160,9 @@ its contents are not allowed. The mode line indicates read-only buffers with @samp{%%} or @samp{%*} near the left margin. Read-only buffers are usually made by subsystems such as Dired and Rmail that have special commands to operate on the text; also by visiting a file whose access -control says you cannot write it. +control says you cannot write it. However, if the variable +@code{kill-read-only-ok} is set to a non-@code{nil} value, you can kill +(a.k.a.@: cut) read-only text, see @ref{Killing}. If you wish to make changes in a read-only buffer, use the command @kbd{C-x C-q} (@code{vc-toggle-read-only}). It makes a read-only buffer |