...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? I think that the message "Text is read-only" is a bit more helpful then just beeping since just a beep would not distinguish ...

...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 ... what you expect. (Well, no beep, but you can't move over the text any longer.) How do you propose to do that? Perhaps using the protocol ...

...> 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 ...

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?

...> minibuffer-prompt-properties <RET> Enable the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes Thanks a lot! When i switched to emacs in about 2006 from 4 years of xemacs, i was quite annoyed by this behavior. I remember i posted this question, i got some silly responses from emacs regulars in comp.emacs, who says that something to the effect that “sometimes you need to copy the prompt”....

....  (Well, no beep, but you can't move over the text any longer.) The following code appears to work: (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties (remove 'read-only minibuffer- prompt-properties)) Ouch. That risks causing *serious* breakage: `... as I can tell that would allow you to edit the prompt text, which probably isn't as desirable as not being able to move...

... the "Don't Enter" option and save your changes, which will implement what you expect.  (Well, no beep, but you can't move over the text any longer.) The following code appears to work: (setq minibuffer-prompt-properties (remove 'read-only minibuffer- prompt-properties))

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