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

[Kevin Layer]

abraham@dina.kvl.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:

> 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)

This does the trick for me.  I just had to make one change, since the
places that make the strings external always call this:

(defun fi::defontify-string (str)
  (format "%s" str))

changed to this:

(defun fi::defontify-string (str)
  (cond ((fboundp 'set-text-properties)
         (set-text-properties 0 (length str) nil str)
         str)
        (t (format "%s" str))))

> 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.

Correct.

Thanks.