Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties

[Richard Stallman]

    > It could be a `context specific minor mode', as proposed for table.el,
    > activated, perhaps, when you give a special `set-rectangle-mark'
    > command.  

    That was what I meant.  It would be a minor-mode that got turned on
    temporarily

Let's not think of every flag in Emacs as a "minor mode".