Re: kill-word moves point if text is read-only.

[Miles Bader]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:59:07PM +0000, lawrence mitchell wrote:
> If trying to delete text that is read-only with
> backward-kill-word, say, point is moved to where it would have
> been, were the word actually deleted.

I vaguely recall that this behavior is intentional (note that it still copies
the data too -- so if you ignore the beeps, you can use backward-kill-word 4
times to copy the last four words into the kill ring ...).

-Miles
-- 
.Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.