Re: problems with better-registers: turn-off-all-minor modes or remove all text-properties

[Thorsten Bonow]

> > > > > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes: 

> Hi 

> better-registers found in 
> https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacswiki.org/blob/master/better-registers.el 
> is unfortunately no longer maintained. It allows, among other 
> things, to save registers in a file for future sessions. 

> While there is no problem in saving some text of a buffer in 
> fundamental mode to a specific resister. 

> However for example message mode, that has in my case quite a 
> bit of minor modes turn on, results in a saving of the sort. 

> ,---- | | (set-register 49 #(" | Test again | and again | -- | I 
> strongly condemn Putin's war of aggression against the 
> Ukraine. I | support to deliver weapons to Ukraine's military. I 
> support the ban of | Russia from SWIFT. I support the EU 
> membership of the Ukraine. " 0 1 | (fontified t) 1 11 (fontified 
> t) 11 22 (fontified t) 22 23 (fontified t) | 23 25 (fontified t 
> rear-nonsticky t field signature pabbrev-added t) 25 | 26 
> (fontified t rear-nonsticky t field signature) 26 27 (fontified 
> t) 27 | 28 (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 28 29 (fontified t) 29 
> 37 (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 37 38 (fontified t) 38 45 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) | 45 46 (fontified t) 46 53 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 53 54 (fontified | t) 54 57 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 57 58 (fontified t) 58 60 | 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 60 61 (fontified t) 61 71 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 71 72 (fontified t) 72 79 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) | 79 80 (fontified t) 80 83 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 83 84 (fontified | t) 84 91 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 91 93 (fontified t) 93 94 | 
> (fontified t pabbrev-added t) 94 95 (fontified t) 95 102 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 102 103 (fontified t) 103 105 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 105 106 (fontified t) 106 113 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 113 114 (fontified t) 114 121 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 121 122 (fontified t) 122 124 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 124 125 (fontified t) 125 134 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 134 135 (fontified t) 135 143 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 143 146 (fontified t) 146 147 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 147 148 (fontified t) 148 155 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 155 156 (fontified t) 156 159 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 159 160 (fontified t) 160 163 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 163 164 (fontified t) 164 166 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 166 167 (fontified t) 167 173 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 173 174 (fontified t) 174 178 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 178 179 (fontified t) 179 184 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 184 186 (fontified t) 186 187 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 187 188 (fontified t) 188 195 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 195 196 (fontified t) 196 199 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 199 200 (fontified t) 200 202 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 202 203 (fontified t) 203 213 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 213 214 (fontified t) 214 216 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 216 217 (fontified t) 217 220 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 220 221 (fontified t) 221 228 
> (fontified t | pabbrev-added t) 228 231 (fontified t))) `---- 



> Which in turn causes problems when loading a file with such 
> saved resisters. 

Hi,

could you please be more specific about the problems?

I ran a few quick tests with savehist mode; worked for me:

(savehist-mode 1)
(setq savehist-additional-variables '(register-alist))

This saves minibuffer history and `register-alist' in 
`savehist-file' (defaults to "~/.emacs.d/history").

Toto



> Two workaround occured to me, but both did not work 

> 1. Turn off all minor mode (which might be the culprit of all 
> the face stuff that is added) by using (defun 
> disable-all-minor-modes () (interactive) (mapc (lambda 
> (mode-symbol) (when (functionp mode-symbol) ;; some symbols are 
> functions which aren't normal mode functions (ignore-errors 
> (funcall mode-symbol -1)))) minor-mode-list)) Found in 
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/42239/how-to-disable-all-the-minor-modes-when-a-specific-major-mode-is-enabled-with 

> 2. Or delete all the text-properties, by something like this 
> (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (set-text-properties (point-min) 
> (point-max) nil)) 

> It did not work neither. 

> Any idea? 

> Thanks and regards 

> Uwe Brauer 


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