Re: Annoying message "Text is read only"

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:

> When I execute M-x find-file it says Find
> File:
>
> Why I press cursor left a few times and then try to press a key, it
> says: "Text is read only".  Surely a more natural behavour would be
> to beep and not allow the user to type in that character in the
> first place.  What gives?

How do you propose to do that? 
Perhaps using the protocol hinted at by:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d140/taporsnap_25/punch_tcp_ip.jpg

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