From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:21:21 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87zo0dc2em.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018301112 5129 127.0.0.1 (8 Apr 2002 21:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 21:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ugdT-0001Ka-00 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 23:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16ugs0-0006sJ-00 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 23:40:13 +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 16ugcQ-0002bC-00; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:24:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16ugaI-0002Sb-00 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.149] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5b8) with ESMTP id 544636 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:07:47 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16ugZl-0007ol-00 for ; Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:21:21 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: <200204081553.g38FrFM10159@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:53:15 -0400") Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2474 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2474 >>>>> On Mon Apr 8, Stefan writes: > I think this points to a good compromise: strip any property whose > value is the same across the whole copied text. This still does not solve the problem of copying the read-only property that's attached to Eshell prompts. Why can't a mode author decide to inhibit property copying in his buffer? I still haven't seen a convincing argument for denying me a buffer-local configuration variable. John