Re: 'M-o' ('facemap-keymap') has now been removed until March 10th 2021

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> I'm responding to a very narrow issue Gregory raised, which was that yanking
>>> a defun from an emacs-lisp-mode into a text-mode-buffer, then deactivating
>>> font-lock-mode did not remove what he considers to be fontification. To me,
>>> this makes sense because text-mode does not fontify most text, thus any text
>> Yes, but the question is not whether it makes sense but whether it's 
>> desirable.
>> If it's not desirable than it doesn't matter whether we provide/preserve
>> this behavior.
> I see. Yes I think it's desirable.

Could you explain why you think it's desirable, e.g. with concrete use cases?

> For me the desirable aspect is the distinction between text props and
> font-lock.

I don't know what you mean by that.


        Stefan