From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill
Date: 09 Apr 2002 15:05:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5xu1qlkonv.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoit71i31n.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> > Does it ever make sense to consider read-only as a property of text--any
> > text at all? If not, perhaps read-only should not be a text property,
> > but an overlay.
>
> I think many people may prefer the text-property programming interface
> anyway. Anyway, yeah, it does make sense -- consider a form: it's
> generally thought of as read-only with read/write fields in it.
I think using read-only property for this is perfectly valid, but still,
if you copy the form (or part of it) to another buffer, I guess it really
doesn't make sense to regard it as a form anymore.
Another property which I *hate* having copied is the mouse-face property.
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-09 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-03 23:23 Question about copy-region-as-kill John Wiegley
2002-04-05 6:02 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-05 21:39 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-06 8:21 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 10:29 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 17:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 18:05 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 18:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08 1:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-06 18:30 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-06 23:03 ` Alan Shutko
2002-04-07 7:42 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-08 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-08 21:21 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-09 9:31 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-09 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-09 10:23 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 13:05 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-04-09 13:24 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-10 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 14:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-10 16:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-11 14:53 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-11 16:27 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-04-12 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-12 10:36 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-04-09 15:26 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-04-09 21:28 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 3:56 ` Tak Ota
2002-04-06 15:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-06 17:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-06 20:38 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-06 23:03 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 0:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 0:56 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 2:53 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 4:44 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 4:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 5:32 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 6:53 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 7:46 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 8:18 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-04-07 12:20 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-08 3:09 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-08 6:18 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-09 22:04 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-10 20:17 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 12:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:12 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 6:36 ` John Wiegley
2002-04-07 6:55 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 23:42 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-08 3:14 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-09 12:07 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-09 22:06 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 4:41 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 4:58 ` Miles Bader
2002-04-07 5:43 ` Colin Walters
2002-04-07 10:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-06 17:43 ` Kai Großjohann
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