Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.

[David Kastrup]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Cc: Oliver Scholz <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>>        address@hidden
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:04:54 +0200
>> 
>> If I do search&replace on text that is in a run-in paragraph, I don't
>> want to cater for CR and multiple spaces that are just added for the
>> sake of appearance.
>
> I agree; these commands will need to know about the special text
> properties and skip/ignore such characters.
>
> However, similar modifications to search/replace commands are required
> anyway for Unicode-compatible text editing (e.g., canonical
> decompositions and combining sequences, see UAX#15).
>
> Also, it seems to me that they (the modifications) are less intrusive
> than what we will need if the displayed text is different from what a
> Lisp program can find in the buffer.

I can't see that.  The entities I want to manipulate with Lisp
programs are typically the contents, not the appearance of the text.

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