Re: For lack of content...

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

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

> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> >    I actually wrote a prototype of such myself, but ran into the
> >    problem that decode-coding-region trashes text-properties.
> 
> Hm.  It does seem that that function trashes text props.  Why?

Here's a segment of the discussion engendered by my original bug
report:

| From: Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp>
| Subject: Re: Text Properties in decoded regions (correction)
| To: rms@gnu.org
| CC: md5i@cs.cmu.edu
| Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:35:01 +0900
| 
| Richard Stallman <rms@santafe.edu> writes:
| > I asked Handa what he thinks we should do.
| > In principle, decode-encoding-region should preserve text properties,
| > but if that is hard to do, maybe it should delete them.
| 
| It's a rather hard task to preserve text properties with
| decode-coding-region and encode-coding-region.  At least, I can't do
| that before the release of 20.4.
| 
| So, I agree that we should delete text properties of the target region
| and document it.

(BTW, is there a good way in Gnus to do forwards of other articles in
replies to other articles, or cites from multiple articles?)

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