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Re: text.texi - `buffer-substring'
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: text.texi - `buffer-substring' |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:47:26 +0900 |
Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> writes:
> (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.)
No, you are still confusing the _printed representation_ of the return
value of buffer-substring with the actual return value.
Try this:
(type-of (buffer-substring 1 10))
It returns `string', showing that the return value of buffer-substring
is really a string.
-Miles
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