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Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties
From: |
Kevin Layer |
Subject: |
Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:08:45 -0800 |
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Layer wrote:
>>
>> > >> (format "%s" ...) in emacs 20.7 removes font info. In 21.1 it does
>> > >> not. This, not buffer-substring, is hosing me.
>> > >>
>> > >> We made this change deliberately, thinking of it as repairing something
>> > >> broken. The idea is that colors, fonts, etc. should not be lost.
>> >
>> > I said in a later reply that I thought format was more for human
>> > readable formatted output, and if this is the case (that's a big
>> > `if'), then the change doesn't make sense to me.
>>
>> format is also used to produce strings that are inserted into buffers.
>> In those cases, losing text properties is _bad_.
OK, I agree.
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Miles Bader, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties,
Kevin Layer <=
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15