text.texi - `buffer-substring'

[Andreas Roehler]

Evaluation of the given example to `buffer-substring'
produces a different result as shown in the manual.

Whereas the manual demonstrates

         ---------- Buffer: foo ----------
         This is the contents of buffer foo

         ---------- Buffer: foo ----------

         (buffer-substring 1 10)
              => "This is t"

I get

(buffer-substring 1 10)#("This is t" 0 1 (fontified t) 1 9 (fontified t))

ie text-properties are copied as a kind of comment
behind, not solely `along' as the info says. (Reading
the info I would understand, that the chars copied into
the returned string are propertized as the original
one, as it seems the case altogether.)

The mentioned copying effects eventually following procedures.

(setq baz (buffer-substring 1 10))

baz --> #("This is t" 0 1 (fontified t) 1 9 (fontified t))

Maybe it's a `buffer-substring' bug ?

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Andreas Roehler

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