Re: Questions about text properties

[Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>]

On 20/10/2018 21:21, Garreau, Alexandre wrote:
> — why does stuff everywhere (e.g. org-mode) appears to just bind RET,
>   C-c C-c, mouse events, etc. to contextual do-everything functions,
>   rather than only bind these on fontified parts of buffer, so not to
>   have such meaningless hard to debug, read, and understand functions;

Text properties are applied on fontification (font-lock-mode), and it
can be turned off. Those major modes of course need to work also in that
case. It should also be noted that fontification is the default only
since relatively recently (Emacs 23, maybe?).

Cheers,
Dan