call-interactively: Text is read-only: "Type `e' to edit property"

Question

I'm working in org-mode, and while trying to delete some blank lines, I get the error message

call-interactively: Text is read-only: "Type `e' to edit property"

I'm not using read-only mode. I am unable to delete the blank lines but I am able to type elsewhere in the buffer.

Answer 1

For me the problem occurred when I was had the buffer in column view and didn't press q to quit.

See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-03/msg00151.html for more details.