From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mirko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elispQ: How can I extract text from #("text" ... ) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 04:00:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1d8f705b-b39a-44cd-bcfc-cb39d13e5087@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207309302 789 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 11:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 13:42:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JhkIw-0005ld-8g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhkIJ-0006ku-Mb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:41:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.76.172.207 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207306825 1773 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2008 11:00:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.76.172.207; posting-account=yS7ZzQoAAACbDncxMo9UeCyhsLtcDWPM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157669 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53039 Archived-At: On Apr 4, 12:14 am, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > values such as: > > #("Typically only electric field is assigned" 0 41 (face font-lock- > > string-face fontified t))) > > > Now, these are variables of type string. How can I extract just the > > text from it? > > You can use function `substring-no-properties' to give you a plain string that > has no face or other properties. > > But you might not need to. What do you want to do with the resulting text > (string)? Thanks, I compare its contents to some text strings using string= or insert them into a buffer. I am converting a freemind mindmap to a latex (beamer) file. Mirko