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To: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>
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Subject: Re: [bug] add-text-properties
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From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Date: 20 Aug 1997 10:31:59 -0700
In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of "20 Aug 1997 13:27:31 -0400"
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Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com> writes:

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> Hi-
> 
> There is a bug in `add-text-properties'.  This is in Bratislava on
> sparc/solaris.
> 
> Basically, copying part of a region that has had the "text-properties"
> set to be read-only, and pasting it into the minibuffer, makes the
> minibuffer read-only, and you are hosed.
> 
> 1. Load the following file into XEmacs (xemacs -q -l nicely.el).
> 
> 2. Type M-x, and then C-y to yank the region into the minibuffer.
> 
> 3. Say bye-bye to XEmacs, because the minibuffer is now hosed.
> 
> This does not happen with make-extent/set-extent.

  Emacs will no longer pull the 'read-only' property along with text
properties (when pasting) in the next version.  We should probably make a
similar change.

-Bill P.

