Attribute Data Type:
Attribute Default Value:
Attribute Group:
Attribute Purpose:
Attribute Inherited from Preferences?
Attribute Read-Only?
Attribute Intrinsic?
Attribute First Added:
Attribute Altered:
boolean [other boolean-type attributes]
false
Textual [other Textual Group attributes]
Note text
No
No
No
Baseline
Controls the whether the user can edit the text content ($Text) of a note.
$ReadOnly does not affect other note attributes. By default new notes are editable. Besides various read-only system attributes, this attribute is normally used for notes that fetch their content from the web: you don't really want to modify their content or indeed, cannot.
When set to true, to select text in the note you must use Cmd+drag-select instead of the normal drag select.