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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Stefan.

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 22:58:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >           (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.

Thank you indeed.  That is what I have now done.

>         Stefan

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