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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: enriched mode loses bold on save, version 26.1, debian 10.3
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:31:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCfir4gixurkaMXE@protected.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tuqgccpt.fsf@gnu.org>

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-02-13 16:36]:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:10:39 +0300
> > From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > I think this is a bug in enriched-mode, please report it together with
> > > the recipe for reproducing the problem.
> > 
> > Let us say I have M-x shell in one window, and my prompt symbol "$" is
> > green color or bold, and in other window file in enriched mode.
> > 
> > Then I move to buffer *shell* and copy this:
> > 
> > ,----
> > | $ ls
> > `----
> > 
> > I can see visually that $ is green in color or bold, and when I insert
> > it into enriched mode file, I can see the same color. When I save it,
> > it is not there, this is because propertized text was copied and
> > pasted.
> > 
> > Is enriched mode supposed to understand propertized text and convert
> > such into enriched mode?
> 
> Well, it did understand the foreground color in the OP's recipe,
> didn't it?

Now when inspecting that it should save the color I can see it does
save the color, that I did not know.

> it did save the color, but not the bold attribute So then answer
> appears to be YES, and there's something Enriched mode should have
> done but didn't.

That is right and also clarified to me.

> (And there's no reason to "convert to enriched mode", since what
> Enriched mode offers is a mechanism to save and restore text
> properties.  It's not like it invents some new text attributes or
> something, they are just text properties.)

Aha. That I did not know.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-13 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-13  2:21 enriched mode loses bold on save, version 26.1, debian 10.3 Dan Hitt
2021-02-13  8:30 ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13  8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 10:10   ` Jean Louis
2021-02-13 13:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 14:31       ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-02-13 15:14     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-13 15:27       ` Jean Louis
2021-02-14  2:09   ` Dan Hitt
2021-02-14  2:29     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-02-15  2:15       ` Dan Hitt
2021-03-14  7:43         ` Dan Hitt

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