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>> Is there in fact a function that stringifies its single argument, and
>> does nothing else?
> Well, not in emacs lisp.  Here you have to implement these standard(*)
> functions yourself:

> (defun princ-to-string (x) (format "%s" x))
> (defun prin1-to-string (x) (format "%S" x))

Actually prin1-to-string seems to be predefined in my version of Emacs.


        Stefan