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Re: saving/restoring text and overlays
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: saving/restoring text and overlays |
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Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:25:43 +0300 |
> From: Leo Butler <leo.butler@umanitoba.ca>
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:21:39 -0500
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
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> So it appears that enriched text mode did do what I want, but the way
> Emacs handles display properties is too permissive...
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> This leads me to ask why the feature was nuked rather than handling it
> like file variables
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Variables.html).
It wasn't nuked, you are reading too much into that NEWS entry. Only
the dangerous part was disabled, and even that can be enabled if you
trust the source of the file.