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Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.
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On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:53:58PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Btw, one limitation of text properties is that they cannot overlap.
> So, if we base these features on text properties, we need to solve the
> nesting problem somehow (or prove to ourselves that nesting is not
> required).

But they _can_ be any lisp value, including a list, so application code could
do its own merging.

-Miles
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