Re: How to get rid of text attributes?
Mats Lidell writes:
>>>>> Stephen wrote:
Stephen> This makes sense in some cases, for example:
Stephen> A *text property* is one, like the emphasis on the term defined,
Stephen> which should be copied along with the text.
Stephen> If you copy that definition, in general you do want to copy
Stephen> the emphasis.
Actually I very seldom want that.
Hey, you asked why it's so, and I'm telling you. Don't ask me to
defend current practice, except as backward/FSF compatibility.
If the good thing is to paste in the emphasis wouldn't it be
convenient also to have "paste special" or "paste text" to handle
the
case where the extent gets in your way?
Well, for whatever reason, the Powers That Be seem to have decided
that you normally want to make that decision when copying/killing
text, and have provided a few foo-no-properties functions for
extracting text from the buffer without properties. Weirdly enough,
*none* are commands.
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