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 markup formats Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <871wgi9jzb.fsf@jidanni.org> <87odjlwpu1.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir9r1m99.fsf@jurta.org> <87myz2i9tj.fsf@jurta.org> <87r6ocx0tk.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <87d4zuyvn6.fsf@gmx.de> <87fy4prmdf.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl8ngp94.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87abuuexfo.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> <87ps3qriao.fsf@gmx.de> <874pl2wfom.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182447180 13283 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2007 17:33:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:33:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, alkibiades@gmx.de To: Nic James Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 19:32:59 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 1I1QWg-0004Vz-D2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:32:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1QWf-00073l-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1QWF-0006k3-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I1QWE-0006jL-4n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I1QWD-0006jG-Uc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1QWD-0005ZL-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I1QWD-0004iH-3b; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:32:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <874pl2wfom.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (message from Nic James Ferrier on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:01 +0100) 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:73531 Archived-At: I'm talking about using properties to mark the syntax of pieces of text (in an ordinary buffer) as they are described in a word processor schema instance (a document). Maybe I misunderstood your message. Using text properties is the right way to indicate markup, when it can be handled character by character (which is what text properties do).