Re: Any want to test buffer-substring patches?

aardvark llama wrote:
> >(unless (fboundp 'buffer-substring-no-properties)
> >  (defun buffer-substring-no-properties (start end)
> >    use-whatever-those-old-versions-support-then))
> >
> (defun buffer-substring-no-properties (beg end)
>  "Return the text from BEG to END, without text properties, as a string."
>  (let ((string (buffer-substring beg end)))
>    (set-text-properties 0 (length string) nil string)
>    string))

That version looks fairly xemacs-specific. I don't know if that'd work
in old versions of emacs that didn't have buffer-substring-no-properties.

> >However, I would be interested to know which versions you found not
> >to support buffer-substring-no-properties.  Concerning Emacs, 19.34

I'm not aware of any versions that don't have that function. I just
don't want to break anyone's old (x)emacs editors.

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