From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:39:24 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bscx7rlf.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <87ofh09xjq.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018042949 26280 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2002 21:42:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tbTZ-0006pl-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tbgk-0001kX-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tbT9-0007pI-00; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:42:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tbQx-0007cP-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 16:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.157] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b8) with ESMTP id 417571 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:25:46 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16tbQa-0008FV-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:39:24 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Thu, 4 Apr 2002 23:02:13 -0700 (MST)") Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2400 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2400 >>>>> On Thu Apr 4, RMS writes: > Most text properties are supposed to be killed and yanked. Imagine > editing a multi-font document. Shouldn't this be a property of the document, rather than a general rule? Perhaps there should be a buffer-local-variable `copy-properties-on-kill'. In the majority of cases, I think property copying is the wrong thing to do. This would also be a very trivial, isolated change. Furthermore, you could default the value of that variable to non-nil, if you really want that as the default behavior. And then, modes which DON'T want property copying ever (like my emacs-wiki mode) could avoid it by simply changing a local variable. John