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Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> That kindles me to ask if there is no function to set the text
> properties for a (sub)string. The available functions which set text
> properties seem to work only on buffers.


,----[ C-h f propertize RET ]
| propertize is a built-in function.
| (propertize STRING &rest PROPERTIES)
| 
| Return a copy of STRING with text properties added.
| First argument is the string to copy.
| Remaining arguments form a sequence of PROPERTY VALUE pairs for text
| properties to add to the result.
| 
`----