Subject: bug#30786: Save text properties in desktop

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:08:08 -0400

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>>> +     ;; Get rid of unreadable text properties.
>>>>> +     (if (ignore-errors (read (format "%S" value)))
>>>>> +         (cons 'may value)
>>>>> +       (let ((copy (copy-sequence value)))
>>>>> +         (set-text-properties 0 (length copy) nil copy)
>>>>> +         (cons 'may copy))))

> If we can afford continuing incrementing the desktop file version in
> ‘desktop-file-version’ doing this every time when support for reading more
> syntaxes is added, thus preventing incompatibilities, then the patch above
> would be the most reliable solution.

You would also have to strip text properties according to the value of
desktop-file-version, right?