Re: saving buffer with text properties

[Chong Yidong]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>> >>    Is there any plan to enable users to save text
>> >>    with all of its properties?
>> >>
>> >> "all" is a big word!
>>
>> I think the way to do this is to build hooks into the desktop.el
>> system, so that external packages can specify a list of text
>> properties to re-apply to each file when it is re-opened.  This
>> information would be saved in .emacs.d, and the cache can be cleared
>> out for files that have not been re-opened for N days.
>
> But the per-file information about applied text properties needs to be saved
> with the file, no?

That would interfere with third-party programs, such as other text
editors, that want to edit the file.

> Or did you mean that desktop would save a list of files and their text
> properties (including property values and locations)?

Basically.  Desktop should provide hooks that other packages (such as
major modes) can use, i.e. a major mode should be able to tell desktop
"save the following data when closing this file, then run this
function with that data when the file is reopened".