Re: read-only headers in message mode

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

James Leifer <James.Leifer@inria.fr> writes:

> Now I'm all for being *able* to shoot myself in the foot, but most of
> the time I want to be prevented from doing so accidentally.  Is there
> any way of making the labels like "To: " and the ``--text follows this
> line--'' *read-only* (like emacs customize mode)?

I seem to remember experimenting with this at one point -- there's
still code like

  (put-text-property
   (point)
   (progn
     (insert mail-header-separator "\n")
     (1- (point)))
   'read-only nil)

in message.el, which seems rather pointless.  I'm guessing that that
nil was t once upon a time.

I also seem to remember it being highly annoying having read-only
text in the buffer, but I don't remember why...

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