Subject: bug#64696: 30.0.50; indent-to inherits preceding text properties, including 'invisible

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:25:48 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I don't see any inconsistency.  'insert' is a much more
> general-purpose primitive than indent-to.  It would be dead wrong for
> each insertion to inherit the properties.
>
> indent-to is different: when you indent text, you supposed want the
> whitespace to use the same face, for example.  Think about it.

Not necessarily. Sometimes, we just use it for plain text alignment.
Like in block comments or Org tables.

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