Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: improving bidi documents display

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  Michael Welsh Duggan 
> <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:39:22 +0900
> 
> "Martin J. Dürst" <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Overlay, not text property.  The latter modifies the buffer, which is
> >> not what you want in this case.
> >
> > Just a factual question: What does it mean when you say that
> > properties modify the buffer?
> 
> Adding/changing text properties marks the buffer as "modified."
> 
> One can avoid that effect by using the `with-silent-modifications' macro.

Yes, but then copying the text copies the properties with it, which is
not what you want in this case, in general.