Re: Question about copy-region-as-kill

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:39:24 -0700
> 
> >>>>> On Thu Apr  4, RMS writes:
> 
> > Most text properties are supposed to be killed and yanked.  Imagine
> > editing a multi-font document.
> 
> Shouldn't this be a property of the document, rather than a general
> rule?

If most uses of text yanking want this rule, I think it makes sense to
have it globally enabled.  Lisp programs which don't want that can
always remove the properties before inserting the text.

> In the majority of cases, I think property copying is the wrong
> thing to do.

FWIW, my impression is exactly the opposite.