src/emacs -Q etc/NEWS C-x C-q ; buttons appear C-x C-q ; buttons donʼt disappear
(personally I donʼt mind the buttons, but the intent of faf1f037987c was to make them disappear). I came up with the following, but I can never remember all the details of text property removal (maybe we need a `button-debuttonize-region'?) diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el index edeb1540feb..2cca63071b5 100644 --- a/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/emacs-news-mode.el @@ -112,10 +112,17 @@ emacs-news--mode-common (define-derived-mode emacs-news-mode text-mode "NEWS" "Major mode for editing the Emacs NEWS file." ;; Disable buttons. - (button-mode nil) + (button-mode -1) ;; And make the buffer writable. This is used when toggling ;; emacs-news-mode. (setq buffer-read-only nil) + (save-excursion + (with-silent-modifications + (widen) + (remove-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) + (button--properties nil nil nil)) + (add-face-text-property (point-min) (point-max) + 'button nil))) (setq-local fill-paragraph-function #'emacs-news--fill-paragraph) (emacs-news--mode-common)) In GNU Emacs 30.0.60 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.38, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2024-09-05 built on rltb Repository revision: fc7581ae2ee9db1e3189b76c66be9cd13f72f004 Repository branch: emacs-30 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Robert --