Re: Problems with info (emacs version)

[Simon Josefsson]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> > What's wrong with just adding `invisible' to the default list of
>> > properties stripped by yanking?
>> 
>> Could work.  But if, say, message uses the invisible property
>> internally to keep some hidden data around in the buffer, cut'n'paste
>> within the message buffer can generate unexpected result.
>
> Well, does it?  Unless there are real concrete cases where stripping
> invisible would be bad, it seems silly to go around making kludgey
> solutions when such an obvious (and easy) one is staring right at you...

The message-hidden-headers feature uses invisible text.  Perhaps
someone could implement your idea and run with it for a while, to see
if there are other things that use invisible text in message buffers.