Re: Inhibiting read-only

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:59:20 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Can you explain once more why putting the read-only property on all
> > the text except those parts you want to be modifiable is not what you
> > want?
> 
> Because `C-x C-q' doesn't work, and because copying/yanking read-only
> text is annoying.

I don't see why the former would be a problem.  If you really want it
to work, you can bind it to a command that removes the read-only
properties.

As for the latter, can you elaborate about the annoyance, since
read-only is in yank-excluded-properties?