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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: Bob Weiner <weiner@infodock.com>
Cc: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de, hyperbole@infodock.com,
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Subject: Re: kotl-mode broken in Hyperbole distributed with XEmacs 20.1-b3
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Bob Weiner writes:
 > Personally, however, I think it is an internal XEmacs bug that if an extent
 > has a 'text-prop property with the value `t', it is still not considered a
 > text-property.  The more restrictive test used, whereby the value of
 > 'text-prop must be the name of another property of the extent and the value
 > of this property must be non-nil value, seems to limit the implementation to
 > a single text-property per extent whereas I think all properties of an
 > extent with the 'text-prop property should be considered text-properties (it
 > makes sense if you read it slowly).

With one prop per extent, you can implement per-property front
and rear stickness, something that FSF Emacs already has.

