Re: article highlighting in pgnus-0.13

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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'?  :-)

I'll give it a whack.  Of course, in 20.4, if we are lucky,
decode-coding-region will be fixed w/respect to text properties.
Hm...  Maybe I will take a look at the code in that and see what it
looks like.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
.