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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?
>>
>> "all" is a big word!

I think the way to do this is to build hooks into the desktop.el
system, so that external packages can specify a list of text
properties to re-apply to each file when it is re-opened.  This
information would be saved in .emacs.d, and the cache can be cleared
out for files that have not been re-opened for N days.