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27.1; Invisible text property updated only for a portion of buffer

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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 47937 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47937: 27.1; Invisible text property updated only for a portion of buffer
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:10:45 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:02:02 +0300
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 47937 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> > From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller <at> live.com>
>> > Cc: 47937 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> > Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:40:31 +0200
>> > 
>> > > They are not processed because there's no invisible property there.
>> > 
>> > Why does it work on visible portion of the buffer, but not on the rest?
>> 
>> Because you have font-lock-mode turned on.  And JIT font-lock begins
>> by wiping out all the text properties.
>
> I should clarify this, I guess: this is specific to Org buffers, see
> org-unfontify-region.  And "all text properties" is an exaggeration:
> it removes many properties, but not all of them.

Allright, thank you for the excellent clarification. I guess I should go
for custom visibility spec instead of plain invisible property, so that
my text property survive font lock.

Please close the bug and thanks.

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