From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:59:15 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020919065808.27969B-100000@is> References: <rzqptvmolj4.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032411830 20682 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2002 05:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: <emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org> Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17rtTh-0005NR-00 for <emacs-devel@main.gmane.org>; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:03:49 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ru8K-0000cl-00 for <emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org>; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rtU3-0001WV-00; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17rtS8-0001JM-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17rtS1-0001I5-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rtS0-0001Ht-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA28069; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:59:15 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <rzqptvmolj4.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk> Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:emacs-devel@gnu.org> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel>, <mailto:emacs-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8002 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8002 On 9 Sep 2002, Dave Love wrote: > Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes: > > > This could be a useful feature. These properties won't be necessary > > for correctness, and it would be no disaster if they got lost, > > It would be unfortunate, as it is clobbering data. Especially, it's > probably not visually obvious. > > Text properties are currently fragile because they're often stripped > with calls of buffer-substring-no-properties and friends. Agreed. Perhaps text properties aren't the right vehicle for solving this problem.