Re: Reading text properties from a yanked text

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Because once again what you pass to text-properties-at is a 
  > > different
  > > string.  You are confusing how a string looks on display when 
  > > inserted into
  > > a buffer with another string that just happens to have the same 
  > > text.

  > Thanks to all of you. I think I'm understanding it now. My 
  > confusion comes from a more complex code that I'm trying to debug 
  > and I stumble on this specific case/confusion. Back to debug then.

Is there anything in our documentation that we could change to
help people understand this point?

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