I am not sure if you put the comment on this post: http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/09/13/Make-some-org-sections-read-only/
but it is possible to setup a hook that makes headings read-only. You could do that for headings tagged crypt, for example. AW writes: > I'm using org-crypt. All text below a heading with the tag :crypt: becomes > encrypted with saving the file and looks like this: > > -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > > hQEOAxn9DjwjX2oYEAQAgLl/58dss1VVgmRb1rGIaNV2I5P+smcDjhWa5/arTMPE > 9wjxHUpU/HSflCwnV5609H3J9ZSVubCpaUbV3Da0jnDUJuljFbSqapRym1PW0hFn > ApfLwze3HTj+A3eODf+p3kbDjFnII9Rfn7lWQ/6OmMrisQbvbsWzS3K/crgqu+cD > /j6m3nDURonKGStv5h7sgaSRuLGzqXvHXEnS+d1ad1ZomgTD4abZNvDYt9Y039FE > xYwRphWSBs+vtQ34resZewCa4s7h5SES5j839vQPWI4VyA4uRrfzYATHnHtoxfwA > RQWzUTeS16FFBxnjqqTXGXqH9go25Ovnl1Np9c2H7veH0lQB/hpwGbUJRnYCx5Nd > UlZ/U+aKQJl3aD+ulgOxJhTQNb9ToXxMpwS3FitsZHVh8OaRBLdgjRVFstWw3NhT > RTQ3Og0+ts34iKW+u+2ock/LqiDYFx4= > =+xma > -----END PGP MESSAGE----- > > I really hope this example will not irritate your email software. > > My notebook has one of those large touchpads and once in a while I hit it and > go on with typing, but the cursor shifted to text somewhere else and I'm > adding letters to a completely different paragraph, before I notice and > correct it. > > Well, this evening I added some letters inadvertently inside a PGP message, > because the touchpad shifted to cursor to an encrypted paragraph. If I saved > the file, the encrypted paragraph would have become un-decryptable (I tested > this: decrypting no longer is possible). > > Unfortunately I won't always realise what happened, e.g. if I don't watch > while dictating into a speech recognition (Dragon Nat. Speak.). > > And the encrypted parts are not needed often. So the destroyed PGP message > might make it into my backups and if I try to encrypt it a year later... > > Why isn't the text between > > -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- > > and > > -----END PGP MESSAGE----- > > read-only as a default ? > > Really, an inadvertent change can destroy valuable information and it i -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu