Re: "Font-lock is limited to text matching" is a myth

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull<address@hidden> wrote:
> position).  So, for a very silly example, I could copy the "for" from
> a buffer containing a python program "for x in interator:" to the
> first "for" in this sentence, and I really don't want the highlighting
> coming along with it.

I consider this a bug. Pasting should by default be done after
removing the text properties. There should IMO be a separate command
paste-with-text-properties for the current behaviour (if deemed
needed).