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Re: Indirect text properties


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Indirect text properties
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:11:26 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> The idea is that there could be several alternative sets of text
> properties with the same symbol simultaneously in a buffer, the Lisp
> code selecting which to use by binding a dynamic variable.  This would
> be most useful for the syntax-table text property.

It would be useful -- it's been proposed a few times before, if I recall
correctly.  I think Stefan M called this concept "planes" or
"namespaces" or something.

It'd allow us to get rid of the `font-lock-face'/`face' thing, too, I
think -- font-lock would just work on `face' in its own plane.

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