Anyone have suggestions about temporarily write-locking a text-edit-pane?

I've been digging around, even used inspect to snoop through te:, but haven't
found anything that appears relevant. I'm hoping there's some one-line
solution, but will be grateful for all solutions.

Sincerely,
-Stefan
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Stefan Brandle	(312)567-5150   Long live the midnight oil!
<charlie.cns.iit.edu at brandle>	IIT Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Math
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