> From: Miles Bader <[email protected]> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>, [email protected], Michael Welsh > Duggan <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] > Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:39:22 +0900 > > "Martin J. Dürst" <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
