Re: buffer-substring vs. buffer-substring-no-properties

[David Kastrup]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Layer <layer@--you-know-what-to-remove--.franz.com> 
>>>>> writes:

    Kevin> Can someone tell me if there is a way to make
    Kevin> buffer-substring behave like it used to, and prevent me
    Kevin> from having to change a zillion instances of
    Kevin> buffer-substring to my-buffer-substring?  (I can't just
    Kevin> change them to buffer-substring-no-properties because I
    Kevin> support xemacs, too.)

(let ((saved-bufsub (symbol-function 'buffer-substring)))
  (defmacro buffer-substring (start end)
      (list 'buffer-substring-no-properties start end))
All of your code...
  (fset 'buffer-substring saved-bufsub))

Have not actually tried it, of course...

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