From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: saving/restoring text and overlays Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:25:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83imim4lzs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86zhc3iwg1.fsf@x201.butler.org> <87zhc2eowk.fsf@web.de> <86h7y6hpyk.fsf@x201.butler.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="42114"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 04:26:01 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jIk7l-000ArI-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:26:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIk7k-0001Mb-Gk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jIk7O-0001LQ-8B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:25:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35495) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jIk7O-0002hW-4d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1069 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jIk7M-0006xb-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:25:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86h7y6hpyk.fsf@x201.butler.org> (message from Leo Butler on Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:21:39 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122712 Archived-At: > From: Leo Butler > 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.