Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties

[Ehud Karni]

On 13 Nov 2001 15:10:18 -0800, Kevin Layer wrote:
> 
> Can someone tell me if there is a way to make buffer-substring behave
> like it used to, and prevent me from having to change a zillion
> instances of buffer-substring to my-buffer-substring?  (I can't just
> change them to buffer-substring-no-properties because I support
> xemacs, too.)

I think this should be implemented with a variable that will direct
`buffer-substring' to work like `buffer-substring-no-properties'.

I suggested it (with a patch for the C source) to the developing team
on the 19/10/2001 but it was discarded.

I can send you the diff (about 200 lines).

Ehud.


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