From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: buffer-string considered as a Bad Thing.
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:24:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ja88kq3.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zl9-Z201PL_FBZFr@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 4 Jun 2024 20:51:51 +0000")
On Jun 04 2024, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> That may well be, but the contents of that buffer don't reflect the
> contents of the original string which was printed by pp.
pp produces a *quoted* printed representation of the argument.
ELISP> (read (pp-to-string "foo \"bar\" baz"))
"foo \"bar\" baz"
If you want to print the literal contents of a string use princ.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 19:05 buffer-string considered as a Bad Thing Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-04 20:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-06-04 20:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-06-04 21:24 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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