From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: saving buffer with text properties Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:09:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180908687 27194 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 22:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:11:27 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 04 00:11:26 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 1HuyII-0005lo-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuyIH-0008LI-Ji for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuyIE-0008Kz-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HuyIC-0008Kf-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HuyIC-0008Kc-OX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HuyIC-0004uN-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (rgmgw3.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.112]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l53MBGQM029912 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw3.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l53Lt6wk020286 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 16:11:16 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-81-137.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2796224361180908561; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:09:21 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:72159 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 know. Would it allow for user-defined text properties? invisible? intangible? > 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. That makes sense to me.