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

[Stefan Monnier]

> >>     (format "%s" ...) in emacs 20.7 removes font info.  In 21.1 it does
> >>     not.  This, not buffer-substring, is hosing me.
> >> 
> >> We made this change deliberately, thinking of it as repairing something
> >> broken.  The idea is that colors, fonts, etc. should not be lost.
> 
> I said in a later reply that I thought format was more for human
> readable formatted output, and if this is the case (that's a big
> `if'), then the change doesn't make sense to me.

Printing of a string as #("blabla" blibli) is only done by format
if you used `%S' rather than `%s'.  That kind of format argument
is not really meant for human consumption.


        Stefan