From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Inserting output from a program into a buffer Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:45:00 -0600 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: References: <87zl324774.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87k4u66nhh.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> Reply-To: tim@johnsons-web.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266818781 18704 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2010 06:06:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:06:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 07:06:17 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjR2l-0004Sg-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:41:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjR2l-00061U-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:41:19 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:45:00 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: sv3-S8877/98GEB66aLAvVIVSH5X/L3lrZSebNDCk8YwIjwahmFF2+taL6PQBFKJ7k2rCn1Fx2ilI2In0Yf!pjBUXXpTrXthuResWbqaUygaL2+Wh98GggV3aDRtMpV4SD9xKYjEPOfFkME4uBUU3qRyMBc= Original-X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176960 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:72001 Archived-At: On 2010-02-22, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: <..> > You could get a string without attribute using the function > buffer-substring-no-properties instead of buffer-substring. Oh! Deja vu here... I believe that what I really need is buffer-substring- to copy the region directly to a variable. thanks Pascal -- Tim tim@johnsons-web.com http://www.akwebsoft.com