() Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
() Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:16:42 -0400

   `intangible' is a bad property which should die.
   Can you explain what you need it for?

Sure.  In a fit of rabid laziness, i decided to use
the output of the ‘showboard’ command, e.g.:

 = 
    A B C D E F G H J K L M N
 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
 10 . . . + . . + . . + . . . 10
  9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
  8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
  7 . . . + . . + . . + . . . 7
  6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
  5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5     WHITE (O) has captured 0 stones
  4 . . . + . . + . . + . . . 4     BLACK (X) has captured 0 stones
  3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
  2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
  1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
    A B C D E F G H J K L M N

directly and exercize the (then-newish) text-property
and overlay features w/ this raw text, rather than the
traditional pure-constructive approach (which is only
lame outside of Emacs, IMHO).  The ‘intangible’ property
is placed on the "whitespace" columns between A, B, etc
such that cursor motion never stops on those positions.

Is there a better way to achieve this nowadays?

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