GNU bug report logs - #47220
26.3; Doc of `buffer-string'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:29:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 47220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 47220 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47220: 26.3; Doc of `buffer-string'
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:59:30 +0100

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Please consider mentioning, in both the doc string and the Elisp manual,
> that the result includes any text properties of the text that's copied.
>
> Elisp manual and doc string for `buffer-substring' say this.  It's not
> obvious that the same is true for `buffer-string'.

Makes sense.  I've now made this change in Emacs 28.

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