Re: Text properties gone from edit menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:52:47 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I thought it was only agreed to free up `M-o' as a prefix for ELPA
> >> packages, not to remove the text properties menu from the menu bar as
> >> well.
> 
> > The "Text Properties" menu item makes no sense without facemenu being
> > available.
> 
> But removing the facemenu map from `M-o' doesn't equate to facemenu not
> "being available", right?

The decision was that this entire feature is not useful enough to have
bindings and menu items by default.  It started with M-o, but ended
with much more (as happens frequently in our discussions, where the
tail not only wags the dog, but eventually kills it as well).