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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> > 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.

Surely they have to be.  Code that strips them just needs to be fixed.