Re: Refill read only buffer - not possible?
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Re: Refill read only buffer - not possible?         

Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: B. T. Raven
Date: Aug 14, 2008 09:26

Xnox_afc wrote:
> I'm using terminal emacs over ssh on my cellphone. Display is not very
> wide and when I enter info mode I get all text similar to this:
>
> Very long sentense which goes and goes on\
> and on.
> But this is next sentense which also looks lik\
> e this.
>
> I tried to do refill-buffer but it told be that I can't do this in a
> *read-only* buffer =((((
> Is it possible to redisplay info mode so that I can read it normally
> eg:
>
> Very long sentense which goes and goes on
> and on. But this is next sentense which also
> looks like this.

C-x C-q = M-x toggle-read-only

But in most cases you don't want to save the modified file before
killing the buffer.

Ed.
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