Re: Difficulties with `purecopy' discarding text properties from strings

[Stefan Monnier]

>           (const :tag "\"%q\": Offsets of both top and bottom of window"
>                  (,(mode-line-%-propertize "%q"))))
[...]
>> Or am I missing something?
> purecopy is applied to the entire type: argument.

I see, the problem I was missing is that the :type part contains values
rather than expressions.

BTW, another option is to use the (:propertize ...) mode-line element.
It could be placed in mode-line-format around the use of
mode-line-percent-position, so that mode-line-percent-position can just
be a non-propertized string.


        Stefan