From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: saving/restoring text and overlays
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:25:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imim4lzs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h7y6hpyk.fsf@x201.butler.org> (message from Leo Butler on Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:21:39 -0500)
> From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:21:39 -0500
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> So it appears that enriched text mode did do what I want, but the way
> Emacs handles display properties is too permissive...
>
> This leads me to ask why the feature was nuked rather than handling it
> like file variables
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Variables.html).
It wasn't nuked, you are reading too much into that NEWS entry. Only
the dangerous part was disabled, and even that can be enabled if you
trust the source of the file.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-26 4:14 saving/restoring text and overlays Leo Butler
2020-03-26 22:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-29 20:21 ` Leo Butler
2020-03-30 0:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-30 0:23 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-03-30 1:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-30 2:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-30 20:14 ` Leo Butler
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