Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.

[David Kastrup]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

> As Kim pointed out, that depends on what the Lisp program wants to
> do.  In many cases, Lisp programs walk the buffer in order to decide
> how the displayed text looks (or will look when it comes into the
> visible portion of the buffer).  Such programs will want to see a
> very close approximation of the actual display.

"Many cases" meaning almost exclusively the display engine, and maybe
cursor motion.  Which is not the majority of Lisp programs.  In
particular, it is almost exclusively Emacs-internal code, not that
from external packages or written by a user.

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