From: Michael Olson <mwolson@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: saving buffer with text properties
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:32:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fy57chj3.fsf@hariken.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BDEIJAFNGDOAGCJIPKPBGENDCEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com
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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Is there any plan to enable users to save text with all of its properties?
>
> The Emacs manual says that `invisible' and `intangible' are not saved. It
> would be useful to be able to save a file and, upon reopening, restore all
> of the Emacs text properties, including properties that are not predefined.
>
> For instance, I have a library that implements conditional text, as in a
> desktop publishing system such as Framemaker: easily hide/show arbitrary
> sets of faces in regions etc. However, upon saving, all of this info is
> lost.
This would be something best handled by format.el.
At some point I plan to extend format.el (as requested by RMS in October
2006) to handle overlapping text properties, and then switch muse-mode
over to it.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-03 2:33 saving buffer with text properties Drew Adams
2007-06-03 9:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-03 14:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03 14:47 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-03 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03 17:05 ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-03 17:15 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03 16:43 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2007-06-03 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03 21:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-03 22:09 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-04 5:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-04 7:38 ` M Jared Finder
2007-06-04 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-04 6:29 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-04 23:20 ` Richard Stallman
2007-06-05 1:32 ` Michael Olson [this message]
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