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Re: text-properties: some buffers like, some don't. Why?
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David Combs |
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Re: text-properties: some buffers like, some don't. Why? |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:26 -0000 |
In article <87r5n5e4sl.fsf@fh-trier.de>,
Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:
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>> text-properties: some buffers like, some don't. Why?
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>> I've got a green line. M-w copy it, yank it into *scratch*. NO
>> LONGER GREEN.
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>> So, (after toggling read-only), I try yanking it into *Help*. STAYS
>> green.
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>> (a) What's the distinction?
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>emacs-lisp-mode has font-lock set up, while help-mode does not.
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>> (b) WHY the distinction?
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>Not to annoy you.
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>-ap
THANK YOU!
David
PS: any advantage to having font-lock state shown
in the mode-line?
Ever seen it done?
David