Re: article highlighting in pgnus-0.13

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Maybe.  You would have to use markers, since you don't know how many
> characters the text is going to expand into.  I can have a go at
> writing something.  (It will be a good opportunity to see if markers
> survive `decode-coding-region', since text properties don't.)

I would be surprised if markers survived.  If they are, that could be
exploited.

A different approach would be to save all the text in the region (in a
string or a temp buffer), encode the region, and then compare the
saved region with what you have, and copy the text props over where
matches are made.

Or something.

Do you want to take a whack at either approaches?  I'd be muchu
grateful.  In fact, if something like this were available, I'd submit
it to RMS for inclusion in Emacs 20.4.
`save-text-properties-encode-coding-region'?  :-)

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