From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Idea: Be able to use text properties as face attributes Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:55:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83d1d293cd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7a902f7b-d808-4d0f-8ff9-b8f07eaddf83@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1490626631 10514 195.159.176.226 (27 Mar 2017 14:57:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 27 16:57:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1csW4t-0001qI-EA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:57:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW4z-00010f-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW38-0000IN-Gc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW37-0000kx-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1csW37-0000kp-JX; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:55:13 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3749 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1csW36-0002jJ-QI; Mon, 27 Mar 2017 10:55:13 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:56:17 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:213420 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:56:17 +0700 > Cc: Emacs developers > > Text properties, on the other hand, are analogous to applying styling > properties directly to text. Please don't forget that many/most text properties have no effect whatsoever on how text is displayed. So text properties mostly do NOT apply style to stretches of text, they have other effects.