From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 20:48:46 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Mention multi-planes text-properties
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Mention multi-planes text-properties
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diff --git a/etc/TODO b/etc/TODO
index 00fbc625f77..78ef0213b93 100644
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@@ -181,7 +181,14 @@ dired buffers and DTRT WRT `auto-revert-mode'.
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00456.html
 
 * Important features:
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+** Extended text-properties (to make overlays "obsolete")
+*** Several text-property planes
+This would get us rid of font-lock-face property (and I'd be happy to
+get rid of char-property-alias-alist as well) since font-lock would
+simply use the `face' property in the `font-lock' plane.
+Each property would come with an Elisp merge-function.  The merge
+would be performed in add-text-properties.
+*** zero-width text-properties.
 ** Having tabs above a window to switch buffers in it.
 
 ** "Perspectives" are named persistent window configurations.  We have