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Save text properties in desktop

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 30786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#30786: Save text properties in desktop
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 09:08:08 -0400

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> 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?

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