From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Copying preserves font-lock-face Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17684.33575.513181.276604@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <45155CE0.6040200@gmx.at> <17686.8709.23521.874061@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <4516532E.8040906@gmx.at> <87bqp37ggk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159285630 15459 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2006 15:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:47:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, nickrob@snap.net.nz, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 17:47:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF5G-0000vu-9z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:42:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF5F-0001uL-IN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF40-00009h-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF3z-000086-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSF3y-00006u-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GSF8d-0004TC-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:46:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GSF3x-0001Rv-7S; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:41:37 -0400 Original-To: Chong Yidong In-reply-to: <87bqp37ggk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (message from Chong Yidong on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:02:19 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60241 Archived-At: > However, in buffers where all faces are assigned "manually", perhaps > we should instead convert them to `face' properties. Such modes can probably manipulate yank-excluded-properties if necessary. I don't know of any mode where getting rid of the font-lock-face would be wrong. Text mode is one. Basically, any mode where font lock really does nothing at all. Certainly with Enriched mode on, we would not want any faces to be lost. I will do it.