Re: Idea: Be able to use text properties as face attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 07:01:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> 
> In my view, the effect of a applying a face whose spec
> contains non-face properties to some text would not
> change the text properties of that text (other than its
> `face', `font-lock-face', or `mouse-face' property).
> It would change only the rendered _effect_, i.e., what
> the display engine does.

I don't understand what that means, for most text properties, since
they don't affect the visual appearance of the text in any way.  Which
properties, except 'invisible', did you have in mind?  I'm confused.