GNU bug report logs - #33855
27.0.50; Can't see markup in HELLO

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 33855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33855: 27.0.50; Can't see markup in HELLO
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 22:07:42 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org,  rpluim <at> gmail.com,  33855 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 14:56:43 -0400
> 
> > because Emacs never does that.  E.g., if you save a buffer in CC mode
> > with all the faces set by font-lock, you don't expect the file on disk
> > to have any traces of those faces, right?
> 
> I think this assumes too much knowledge on the part of the user about
> how `enriched-mode` works internally.

Not at all.  Enriched mode is the _only_ mode that is capable of
preserving the faces when saving buffers to files.  The documentation
of Enriched mode spells that out at the beginning.

I'm quite sure any Emacs user knows that faces are lost when you save
a buffer to disk.

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