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30.0.50; indent-to inherits preceding text properties, including 'invisible

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 64696 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64696: 30.0.50; indent-to inherits preceding text properties, including 'invisible
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:20:56 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  64696 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:15:48 -0400
> 
> FWIW, I can't see any good reason to inherit properties here, other than
> "we've always done that", but I'd be surprised if making this change
> won't affect some other use elsewhere :-(

??? That's a non-starter, from where I stand.  If you really think it
can be useful for the inserted whitespace to lose _all_ of the
properties, I can suggest a new optional argument to do that.  Would
that be good enough?

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