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

[Kevin Layer]

>> 
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Kevin Layer wrote:
>> 
>> > >>     (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.
>> 
>> format is also used to produce strings that are inserted into buffers.  
>> In those cases, losing text properties is _bad_.

OK, I agree.