From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org>, 19471@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19471: Emacs can't copy text
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:21:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oa6d7o7q.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87shvp7p1w.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:03:39 +0200")
On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:03:39 +0200 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> In fact, with text properties instead of overlays, the displayed string
> is copied (cf. the variable yank-handled-properties), as can be seen by
> copying the first line below the section title of the above Info node:
>
> When the ‘read-key-sequence’ function reads a key sequence (*note Key
>
> "see " is a display text property, but appears when this text is yanked.
Well, what showed up here as "*note " did appear as "see " when I yanked
that text into the Message mode buffer...
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-04 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-30 9:53 bug#19471: Emacs can't copy text Kelly Dean
2016-07-04 3:31 ` npostavs
2016-07-04 9:03 ` Stephen Berman
2016-07-04 9:21 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2016-07-04 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-04 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
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