Re: text.texi - `buffer-substring'

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
> (buffer-substring 1 10)#("This is t" 0 1 (fontified t) 1 9 (fontified t))
>
> ie text-properties are copied as a kind of comment
> behind, not solely `along' as the info says. (Reading
> the info I would understand, that the chars copied into
> the returned string are propertized as the original
> one, as it seems the case altogether.)

No, you are still confusing the _printed representation_ of the return
value of buffer-substring with the actual return value.

Try this:

  (type-of (buffer-substring 1 10))

It returns `string', showing that the return value of buffer-substring
is really a string.

-Miles
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