Re: Reading text properties from a yanked text

[Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)]

Eli Zaretskii [2022-11-27 at 09:10] wrote:
> Because once again what you pass to text-properties-at is a 
> different
> string.  You are confusing how a string looks on display when 
> inserted into
> a buffer with another string that just happens to have the same 
> text.
>
> Try this instead:
>
> (with-temp-buffer
>   (insert (propertize "Hello" 'face 'bold))
>   (kill-region (point-min) (point-max))
>   (insert (format "(text-properties-at 0 \"%s\")"
>                   (current-kill 0)))
>   (text-properties-at 0 (buffer-substring 24 29)))


Thanks to all of you. I think I'm understanding it now. My 
confusion comes from a more complex code that I'm trying to debug 
and I stumble on this specific case/confusion. Back to debug then.

Nicolas

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