Re: How to paste (yank) "raw text"

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Moritz Kerbel wrote:
 > My problem: If I cut and paste for example an info heading into an
 > other buffer the layout information (font size, font weight etc.) plus
 > invisible text (if you cut it from the beginning to the very end) is
 > pasted into the buffer if you type C-y;
 >
 >    Does there exist a raw yank version that only pastes the raw text
 > (or maybe a raw copy version).  Mabe an "intelligent" yank would be
 > great: If you yank into a buffer with the same (major) mode as the
 > original buffer yank the text, if you yank into a buffer with another
 > mode only yank the raw text (string) ... on the other hand there are
 > situations where a major mode is only valid for a region of a buffer
 > (multiple major modes) ... just pondering the possiblities.  Thanks
 > for you help Moritz

How about something like:

(defadvice yank (after remove-text-properties activate)
   "Remove all text properties from the inserted text."
   (set-text-properties (region-beginning) (region-end) '()))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers