From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:53:26 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204111453.g3BErQr21369@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <87ofh09xjq.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200204050602.g3562Dl18586@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bscx7rlf.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <3791-Sat06Apr2002101927+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <873cy9nsom.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <87wuvk77mc.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <200204081553.g38FrFM10159@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87zo0dc2em.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <5x3cy5md5e.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200204101424.g3AEO8N20963@aztec.santafe.edu> <5x3cy3semh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018541079 7217 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 16:04:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:04:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16vgwa-0000o2-01 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (quimby.gnus.org [80.91.224.244]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3BEsnf26907 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:54:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16vgEA-0002w4-00 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:11:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vfy9-0003H9-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16vfx2-00033G-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:53:29 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g3BErQa18772; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:53:26 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g3BErQr21369; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:53:26 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-Reply-To: <5x3cy3semh.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2538 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2538 Again, it depends... E.g. if we enhance RMAIL to show small icons for unread or urgent messages (or whatever), we don't want to copy those images -- but if a mail message contains an image, we would (probably) want to copy that (as an image). "Enhance RMAIL to show icons" is not a clear description of a scenario. Where would these icons go? In which buffer? Can't think of any, but I suppose there will be those 10% of special cases which will never fit (entirely) into a specific category. Talking about the possibility of unknown whatever does not help sharpen the analysis. Are there any interesting cases that you can think of now? But what about (also) having a user command: yank-without-properties I dislike it very much. It is far better to have a convenient way to clear out text properties from the region.