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authorLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2021-03-18 05:59:12 +0100
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2021-03-18 11:03:14 +0200
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downloademacs-7ae4588bb4800694d841da1684538191cb291617.tar.gz
Document that `buffer-string' retains text properties
* doc/lispref/text.texi (Buffer Contents): Mention text properties in the `buffer-string' documentation. * src/editfns.c (Fbuffer_string): Mention text properties in the doc string (bug#47220). (cherry picked from commit 60af754170f22f5d25510af069ed0ebfec95f992)
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@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ properties, just the characters themselves. @xref{Text Properties}.
@defun buffer-string
This function returns the contents of the entire accessible portion of
-the current buffer, as a string.
+the current buffer, as a string. If the text being copied has any
+text properties, these are copied into the string along with the
+characters they belong to.
@end defun
If you need to make sure the resulting string, when copied to a