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Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Nov 2001 18:57:53 +0200 (IST) |
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Layer wrote:
> >> (format "%s" ...) in emacs 20.7 removes font info. In 21.1 it does
> >> not. This, not buffer-substring, is hosing me.
> >>
> >> We made this change deliberately, thinking of it as repairing something
> >> broken. The idea is that colors, fonts, etc. should not be lost.
>
> I said in a later reply that I thought format was more for human
> readable formatted output, and if this is the case (that's a big
> `if'), then the change doesn't make sense to me.
format is also used to produce strings that are inserted into buffers.
In those cases, losing text properties is _bad_.
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Miles Bader, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/15
- Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties, Kevin Layer, 2001/11/15