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bug#18246: enriched-encode: should set inhibit-point-motion-hooks, too


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#18246: enriched-encode: should set inhibit-point-motion-hooks, too
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:26:17 +0300

> From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:14:25 +0000
> 
>       For one thing, I actually consider the ability to move point to
>       the middle of virtually /any/ text, including “fixed,” in Emacs
>       (it’s not just forms, – think of tmm-menubar, for instance, or
>       minibuffer prompts) to be a considerable /advantage./  And it
>       gets especially useful when, say, writing a guide, – copying
>       text from menus, forms, etc. is not nearly as easy in the
>       majority of the modern (non-tty) software.

Since Emacs knows about every piece of text it displays, there should
be no problem to have M-w or whatever copy into the
selection/clipboard text that comes from overlays or display
properties.  There are no obstacles here, just coding.





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