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changeset 30772:43cd847ecb62
(Misc Buffer): Document kill-read-only-ok.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 06:08:45 +0000 |
| parents | e9948dd313fa |
| children | 9b86e181df4f |
| files | man/buffers.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/buffers.texi Sun Aug 13 06:07:36 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/buffers.texi Sun Aug 13 06:08:45 2000 +0000 @@ -160,7 +160,9 @@ 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