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

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 14 Nov 2001 21:22:36 -0800, Kevin Layer 
<layer@--you-know-what-to-remove--.franz.com> wrote:

> Also, note I couldn't get copy-sequence to remove properties.  It
> always preserves them for me:

Can you remove properties with that?

(defun substring-no-properties (string from &optional to)
  "Return a substring of STRING, without text properties.
The substring starts at index FROM and ends before TO.
TO may be nil or omitted; then the substring runs to the end of STRING.
If FROM or TO is negative, it counts from the end."
  (let ((str (substring string from to)))
    (set-text-properties 0 (length str) nil str)
    str))

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