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#98406
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1991 08:44
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18.57 view-mode complaints:

What if I want to copy-region-as-kill (ESC w) part of the file I'm
viewing?  Since C-a, C-b etc. are disabled I have difficulty getting
point & mark to the region I want.

When you hit C-h m to describe mode, It seems to mostly describe the
default-major-mode, with the one line
"View Mode"
pasted on top.

I would have reproduced that help screen here, but view-mode is
careful not to let evidence of its help screens' transgressions be
reproducible in public:

"Type anything to continue viewing luvbug.h"

and

"Space scrolls forward. Other keys continue viewing vm-reply.el"

[I can't write-region, write-file, the help screen. (Don't you just
hate that when certain "help" situations in emacs won't let you do any
of the normal keystrokes in order to trap what it says---most folks
can't even print it out to paper for deeper long term studying.)]  Too
bad view-mode has a special C-h b, etc. different from the usual ones.
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