Re: [IDEA] Add function clean-buffer

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Should `clean-buffer' eliminate only the text properties and overlays
  > > that do NOT come from the major mode?

  > How could one know where they "come from"?

We can set up a way for major modes to declare which properties
they create and manipulate -- if we want to have that information.
I am not sure we do.

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