Re: 'buffer-substring' returns rubbish

[Peter S Galbraith]

PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> > Use buffer-substring-no-properties instead.
> 
> Thank all of you for the hint!
> Maybe the function documentation of buffer-substring needs to be improved.

That's a good idea.  It doesn't mention it along with `See also
buffer-substring-no-properties'.

I remember when lots of my code broke when this was introduced,
but I just looked it up and found that was in Emacs version
19.29!  (Getting old)

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