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chris@ASYLUM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Chris Shenton) wrote about "manual entry"
buffers not being read-only.

Friends, how often is it that you start editing a Makefile, and then
realize that you are actually in the *compilation* buffer editing
output?

Perhaps the new default should be that the "*compilation*" buffer be
read-only.

The only reason against this (and making the manual pages buffer, *Shell
Command Output*, etc. buffers read-only too) seems to be that you can't
just "snarf and barf" (cut and paste) with C-k as easy anymore... so
there should be a 1-key analog to control-k (like M-w is to C-w) that
puts stuff in the kill ring (and perhaps moves the cursor to the end of
the virtually killed line?), without attempting to modify the buffer.
The present painful way (that dumb old me at least uses) to get a line
into the kill ring in a read-only buffer is to set mark, move to end of
line, hit M-w ==3 key sequences.
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