From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-w, then C-y. C-y inserts text properties that aren't on original.
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:12:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838walx61v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100221215951.GD4407@muc.de>
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:59:51 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
>
> > Here's one idea: make a deep search through the properties of the
> > value of the `category' property, looking for any of the properties in
> > `yank-excluded-properties'. If found, do the replacement we do now.
>
> I'm not in favour of anything like this.
>
> The way the current replacement works, it replaces category properties
> with "hard" properties. These "hard" properties then foul up future
> category properties, should you apply a different category, or change
> the properties on the category symbol.
>
> As Richard said back in 2002, it's a difficult problem to fix, because
> there's no general or canonical case. I think a better way would have
> been simply to drop category properties. But we've got what we've got,
> so why not just stick with it?
I thought you wanted to fix the original problem, didn't you? So I
suggested one way of having it fixed. If we leave things as they are,
the problem you are having will stay as well, no?
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 20:29 M-w, then C-y. C-y inserts text properties that aren't on original Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-19 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-19 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-19 12:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-19 14:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-20 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-20 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <20100221215951.GD4407@muc.de>
2010-02-22 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-02-22 12:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-02-22 22:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2010-02-23 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
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