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@iftex
@chapter Killing and Moving Text
You cannot kill read-only text, since such text does not allow any
kind of modification. But some users like to use the kill commands to
copy read-only text into the kill ring, without actually changing it.
-If you set the variable @code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil}
-value, the kill commands work specially in a read-only buffer: they
-move over text, and copy it to the kill ring, without actually
-deleting it from the buffer. When this happens, a message in the echo
-area tells you what is happening.
+Therefore, the kill commands work specially in a read-only buffer:
+they move over text, and copy it to the kill ring, without actually
+deleting it from the buffer. Normally, Emacs beeps and prints an
+error message when this happens. But if you set the variable
+@code{kill-read-only-ok} to a non-@code{nil} value, it just prints a
+message in the echo area, telling you what is happening.
The delete commands include @kbd{C-d} (@code{delete-char}) and
@key{DEL} (@code{delete-backward-char}), which delete only one