Re: Should invisible imply intangible?

[Stefan Monnier]

>     >     Also, as David Kastrup has mentioned repeatedly, intangible text 
> tends
>     >     to break lots of things...
>     > 
>     > I don't think so.
> 
>     Please, Richard, try to remember the lengthy discussion we've had about 
> that.
> 
> You seem to agree with my conclusion:
> 
>     In practice, it's generally a non-issue because most uses of intangible
>     text are restricted to a particular context so that this intangible
>     text is only accessed by a small body of elisp code.

I indeed agree as long as intangible stays as a rarely used feature.
OTOH If you turn invisible text into intangible text as well, then the
problem changes since it is not true any more that "most uses of
intangible text are restricted to a particular context".


        Stefan