From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: saving/restoring text and overlays
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:23:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhc2eowk.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zhc3iwg1.fsf@x201.butler.org> (Leo Butler's message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:14:54 -0500")
Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca> writes:
> If I have a buffer with, e.g. display properties set to images, how can
> I save that to disk and re-open the saved data so that emacs displays the
> same "stuff"? I am not looking to export the buffer using html or latex
> or any other markup.
Without _any_ form of markup? No, Emacs can't save buffers containing
images directly to a file.
We often had a discussion whether `enriched-mode' should be improved, or
something new could be created, to do what you want (among other things
like saving text properties). But nobody has done it yet.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-26 22:23 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 [this message]
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
2020-03-30 20:14 ` Leo Butler
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