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: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2lrczi7.fsf@gnu.org> <8338mmcsd9.fsf@gnu.org> <83txf1blf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87txf133yd.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <83r4a5bj5x.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwktdy6r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iovhb0ez.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3fxdpmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837gbwbcsx.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2lnevq7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ob57rlkb.fsf_-_@informatimago.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385519704 15223 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2013 02:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 02:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 27 03:35:11 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUy5-0001VE-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Nov 2013 03:35:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33607 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUy5-0006pa-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUy1-0006nD-Sf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUy1-0000UP-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55509) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUy0-0000U0-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VlUxz-0003KB-R8; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:35:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ob57rlkb.fsf_-_@informatimago.com> (pjb@informatimago.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165797 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] To me, text properties, and faces as text properties, have always felt like a kludge. Since they belong on a character, they avoid the anomalies that would otherwise happen when you copy text around in the buffer or between buffers. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.