Re: "Text is read-only"... except it isn't... or shouldn't be

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.05.2013 um 08:46 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

>>> Solution: remove that extension from auto-mode-alist, and Bob's your
>>> uncle.
>> 
>> Cool.  That's what I want.  So I guess I put something in ~/.emacs... 
>> but what?
> 
> I don't know what is the file-name extension of that file, so I cannot
> give a precise recipe.  Assuming for a moment that its extension is
> .png, I see that auto-mode-alist includes this element:
> 
>   ("\\.png\\'" . image-mode)
> 
> So to remove this, you need to do this:
> 
>  (delete '("\\.png\\'" . image-mode) auto-mode-alist)

Since this removes all image support from PNG (or the actual type of) files it 
might be more useful to either rename the file temporarily or to create a link 
with an extension like .txt and edit that link.

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  Pete

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