Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[kj]

When I do a cross-buffer cut-and-paste from a buffer with syntax
highlighting to one that doesn't have any highlighting I find that
the highlighting from the source buffer is preserved, which I don't
want.

I have not been able to find a way to get rid of this "imported"
highlighting, other than killing the buffer and revisiting the
file, which is pretty annoying.  E.g. "M-x fundamental-mode" won't
do it.

Is there a simpler way of getting rid of this unwanted highlighting
(or of avoiding it in the first place)?

TIA!

Kynn
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Re: Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[Joe Casadonte]

On 24 Dec 2008, kj wrote:

> Is there a simpler way of getting rid of this unwanted highlighting

`font-lock-fontify-buffer' should re-fontify the whole buffer,
stripping out the unneeded bits.

> (or of avoiding it in the first place)?

Take a look at what it is that's killing the text in the first place;
if it's `copy-region-as-kill', you may want to re-write it to use
buffer-string-no-properties instead of buffer-string (or use some
around advice that temporarily fsets buffer-string to be
buffer-string-no-properties, but I'm not sure how to un-fset it).

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Re: Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[Samuel Wales]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 20:18, Joe Casadonte
<jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> wrote:
> ... I'm not sure how to un-fset it).

flet?

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Re: Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ur63xrlgo.fsf@terrapin.northbound-train.com>,
 "Joe Casadonte" <jcasadonte@northbound-train.com> wrote:

> On 24 Dec 2008, kj wrote:
> 
> > Is there a simpler way of getting rid of this unwanted highlighting
> 
> `font-lock-fontify-buffer' should re-fontify the whole buffer,
> stripping out the unneeded bits.
> 
> > (or of avoiding it in the first place)?
> 
> Take a look at what it is that's killing the text in the first place;
> if it's `copy-region-as-kill', you may want to re-write it to use
> buffer-string-no-properties instead of buffer-string (or use some
> around advice that temporarily fsets buffer-string to be
> buffer-string-no-properties, but I'm not sure how to un-fset it).

It sounded like he's just using C-w or M-w, not a command of his own.

I also find it annoying.  I frequently like to cut and paste from 
*Occurs* or *grep* buffers, and the attributes are out of place in the 
new buffer.

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Re: Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[Andreas Politz]

kj wrote:
> When I do a cross-buffer cut-and-paste from a buffer with syntax
> highlighting to one that doesn't have any highlighting I find that
> the highlighting from the source buffer is preserved, which I don't
> want.
> 
> I have not been able to find a way to get rid of this "imported"
> highlighting, other than killing the buffer and revisiting the
> file, which is pretty annoying.  E.g. "M-x fundamental-mode" won't
> do it.
> 
> Is there a simpler way of getting rid of this unwanted highlighting
> (or of avoiding it in the first place)?
> 

(add-to-list 'yank-excluded-properties 'face)

-ap
> TIA!
> 
> Kynn

Re: Unwanted highlighting after cross-buffer paste

[kj]

In <1230178467.934601@arno.fh-trier.de> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:

>(add-to-list 'yank-excluded-properties 'face)

Thanks, that did the trick perfectly.

Kynn
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NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards;
and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded.