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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [bug] add-text-properties
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Colin Rafferty writes:
 > The real question is, why does `kill-new' (low-level) copy any
 > text properties at all?  I cannot think of one example where I
 > would want the text-properties to be copied.
 > 
 > But maybe this is because I never did any property hacking in emacs.

If you don't want the properties to be copied with the text, you
should use raw extents.  Why call them 'text properties' if they
don't fall the text when you copy/move it?

