From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: saving buffer with text properties Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180906268 20645 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 21:31:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 21:31:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 23:31:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HuxfC-0008ES-TE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxfC-0001V3-DK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxcC-0000X2-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxcC-0000V9-6v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuxcC-0000Ug-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuxcB-0000n8-QW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Huxbs-00063a-4I; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:27:36 -0400 In-reply-to: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72151 Archived-At: Is there any plan to enable users to save text with all of its properties? The plan for how to do this is to use the format conversion feature as a basis, and implement conversion to and from existing formats that can record markup. We could also invent our own new format, but that would be less useful than interoperation with other programs. One existing format we want to support is RTF. Would RTF do this job? I don't think this should be connected with desktop.el. That is not a clean design. desktop.el has a job to do, and that includes revisiting files that you were looking at. Making saving and visiting handle text properties is a different job and the two should be kept independent.