Re: How Do I Remove Text Properties?

[Richard Riley]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> I recently yanked some text from the scratch buffer, which colored all
>>> quoted text purple, to a text buffer, which does not do that. As a result,
>>> when I began typing immediately after the quoted text (which was still
>>> purple), the text I inserted was also purple. My question is, how do I
>>> remove the text color?
>
>> Select the region, and use M-x facemenu-remove-all RET to strip them.
>
> Just as a matter of terminology, there is only one region, hence nothing
> to select.  You surely mean _mark_ the region.  If you use "select" when
> you really mean "mark", you're going to lose the ability to say "select a
> buffer" (meaning C-x b) since this would be mixed up with "mark a buffer"
> (meaning C-x h).

Context is our friend ;) I must admit to still talk about "selecting a
region". Especially for mouse users "select a region with the mouse".

>
>> I suspect there is a key binding, but I so seldom use the facility that
>> I don't know where it is.


C-h f funcname

gives you the key binding for a function "funcname".