address@hidden: princ does not preserve text properties]

[Richard Stallman]

What do people think of this idea?

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`princ' is used to print objects without quoting, which is the
recommended way to generate output that looks nice for humans (according
to the Output Functions node of the Emacs Lisp manual).  But outputting
strings that have text properties to a buffer with `princ' does not
preserve them.

For example, wouldn't it be nice if this worked:

(with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Foo Bar*"
   (princ (propertize "foo: bar" 'face 'bold))
   (terpri))

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Kevin Rodgers



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