From f869bab8201744adc724af356f39c118a8e72140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 18:36:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (mail-header-separator): Don't put on read-only property. --- lisp/mail/sendmail.el | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el index a5fdc8d5d47..1c3b2dbc150 100644 --- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el +++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el @@ -67,7 +67,12 @@ match the variable `mail-header-separator'.") ;; Set up mail-header-separator for use as a category text property. (put 'mail-header-separator 'rear-nonsticky '(category)) -(put 'mail-header-separator 'read-only t) +;;; This was a nice idea, for preventing accidental modification of +;;; the separator. But I found it also prevented or obstructed +;;; certain deliberate operations, such as copying the separator line +;;; up to the top to send myself a copy of an already sent outgoing message +;;; and other things. So I turned it off. --rms. +;;;(put 'mail-header-separator 'read-only t) ;;;###autoload (defvar mail-archive-file-name nil "\ -- 2.39.2