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changeset 30771:e9948dd313fa
(Killing): Document kill-read-only-ok.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 06:07:36 +0000 |
| parents | dfa82b47c25d |
| children | 43cd847ecb62 |
| files | man/killing.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/killing.texi Sun Aug 13 05:49:52 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/killing.texi Sun Aug 13 06:07:36 2000 +0000 @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ can use the @kbd{C-x u} (@code{undo}) command to undo it (@pxref{Undo}). +@vindex kill-read-only-ok +@cindex read-only text, killing + By default, Emacs does not allow to kill text in read-only buffers. +Setting the variable @code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value +overrides that. To alert you to the fact that you killed read-only +text, Emacs prints a message to that effect in the echo area. + The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and @key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one character at a time, and those commands that delete only spaces or newlines. Commands