Re: TAB for non-editing modes

[Johan Bockgård]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Doing this with kill commands would take away a feature: you can use
>> them in read-only buffers to copy text to the kill ring.  That feature
>> may not be very useful in read-only buffers, but I am not convinced it
>> is an improvement to make it entirely unavailable there.
>
> Granted. But it could be argued that this "feature" is really a bug that we
> exploit (because it seems useful) ;-). Because it is inconsistent with
> normal use (killing) of those commands/keys, it promotes user error and
> possibly confusion. The user does not even get proper feedback about this
> "trick" - s?he still gets the read-only error message/reminder, and there is
> no indication that anything was copied. I don't know if this "feature" is
> even documented.

Of course it is. There even exists an option to remove the read-only
error--`kill-read-only-ok'.

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Johan Bockgård