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Subject: Re: problem with mh-e and 2002-08-20 change to font-core.el
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    I think that if we used (font-lock-mode -1) or some such higher-level
    command the problem would disappear since they are careful to save/restore
    the modification state of the buffer.

That would not do the job; it would fail to remove all the properties
which the current code removes.