[SOLVED] (was: problems with better-registers: turn-off-all-minor modes or remove all text-properties)

[Uwe Brauer]

> Thanks, that did not occur to me. I tried to advice since a while since
> it makes debugging difficult.

> In any case, maybe because I have not used it for a while, my attempts
> failed:

> (defadvice set-property (before removeproperties activate)
>   "Remove all text properties before setting the property"
>   (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
>     (set-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) nil)))


> (defadvice set-property (after removeproperties activate)
>   "Remove all text properties before setting the property"
>   (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
>     (set-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) nil)))

> None of them worked

The magic seems to be

(defadvice copy-to-register (before removeproperties activate)
  "Remove all text properties before setting the property"
  (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
    (set-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) nil)))

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