Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties

[Per Abrahamsen]

layer@--you-know-what-to-remove--.franz.com (Kevin Layer) writes:

> Given that I have lots and lots of calls to buffer-substring that I
> don't want to change to buffer-substring-no-properties,

Why not?

> how do I defontify a string?

You mean remove all text properties?

(set-text-properties 0 (length string) nil string)

You can use 'remove-text-properties' to remove specific properties
(like those added by font lock), but if you are going to send the
string out of emacs you probably want them all gone.