Re: format, concat and text properties

[Miles Bader]

2005/10/26, Ryan Yeske <address@hidden>:
> (format "%10s" (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold))
>
> "foo" is bold in the above example, but not in this one:
>
> (format "%10s" (concat "<" (propertize "foo" 'face 'bold) ">"))

Oddly enough, the resulting string _does_ contain bold characters,
just not the right ones (try it with another face that sets the
background color too, e.g. `region')!  So it looks like it's trying to
propagate the properties, but something is screwing up the
book-keeping...

-miles
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