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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2000-08-13 06:07:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2000-08-13 06:07:36 +0000 |
| commit | 8c1d7d602ea03c7aa0ac8f2aae5ed42ca1f3bbdd (patch) | |
| tree | 4e82168f18c4dc3c49d91912b55c790aa66a2075 | |
| parent | 51e066d2949390aad79bc12d4c2e30436203c1ea (diff) | |
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(Killing): Document kill-read-only-ok.
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diff --git a/man/killing.texi b/man/killing.texi index 6dc62311ebc..c003b7aa678 100644 --- a/man/killing.texi +++ b/man/killing.texi @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ text in the buffer.) If you do a kill or delete command by mistake, you 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 |