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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/text.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/editfns.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/text.texi b/doc/lispref/text.texi index 89582acd35a..6eda581777e 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/text.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/text.texi @@ -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 diff --git a/src/editfns.c b/src/editfns.c index 255537cdc6d..621e35171d8 100644 --- a/src/editfns.c +++ b/src/editfns.c @@ -1682,7 +1682,11 @@ they can be in either order. */) DEFUN ("buffer-string", Fbuffer_string, Sbuffer_string, 0, 0, 0, doc: /* Return the contents of the current buffer as a string. If narrowing is in effect, this function returns only the visible part -of the buffer. */) +of the buffer. + +This function copies the text properties of that part of the buffer +into the result string; if you don’t want the text properties, +use `buffer-substring-no-properties' instead. */) (void) { return make_buffer_string_both (BEGV, BEGV_BYTE, ZV, ZV_BYTE, 1); |