Re: `*' interactive spec in some text-killing functions

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 6/27/07, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> The purpose of not having `*' presumably is to have them affect the
> kill-ring.  In order to provide similar behavior upon multiple kills
> as in a non-readonly-buffer, it appears reasonable to move across the
> (non-happening) kill.

I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that people routinely does kill
operations on a read-only buffer in order to copy text to the kill
ring?

> Uh what?  Switching to overwrite-mode/binary-overwrite-mode does not
> change the buffer, does it?

No. But it seems like an error to *interactively* change to
overwrite-mode in a read-only buffer, doesn't it?

            Juanma