Yanking text without properties?

Yanking text without properties?

[Jonas Steverud]

This is more of a Emacs question then a Gnus but since I usually
encounter it while using Gnus I still consider it to be on topic. :-)

When I copy or kill some text in one buffer and that text contains
some properties - in 99.999% of the cases it is the face of the text -
and then yanks it in some other buffer (usually a message buffer) the
text in the buffer keeps its properties (the face). Usually this is a
good thing, but personally I hate it - suddenly my buffer might look
like a Christmas tree with dozen of colours.

My question is; is there a yank-without-face, yank-without-properties
or similar piece of code? I have not been able to found any.

TIA, it's really annoying!

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Re: Yanking text without properties?

[Steve Youngs]

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* Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net> writes:

  > This is more of a Emacs question then a Gnus but since I usually
  > encounter it while using Gnus I still consider it to be on topic. :-)

  > My question is; is there a yank-without-face, yank-without-properties
  > or similar piece of code? I have not been able to found any.

There's bound to be a better way than this, but you could yank from
the "original" article buffer (`C-u g' in the summary buffer).

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Re: Yanking text without properties?

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <m2oemljius.fsf@c-b75372d5.036-4-67626721.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se>
>>>>>	Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net> wrote:

> My question is; is there a yank-without-face, yank-without-properties
> or similar piece of code? I have not been able to found any.

This is another approach, stripping properties when copying or
killing instead of yanking.  You only have to type `C-x C-e'
after the closing parenthesis.

(defadvice kill-new (before strip-text-props activate)
  "Strip text properties from a killed string."
  (set-text-properties 0 (length (ad-get-arg 0)) nil (ad-get-arg 0)))
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Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>

Re: Yanking text without properties?

[Jonas Steverud]

Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> writes:

> * Jonas Steverud <tvrud@bredband.net> writes:
[...]
>   > My question is; is there a yank-without-face, yank-without-properties
>   > or similar piece of code? I have not been able to found any.
>
> There's bound to be a better way than this, but you could yank from
> the "original" article buffer (`C-u g' in the summary buffer).

Well, that's one way of doing it. But it doesn't help very much when
I copy text from a info file, e.g. the heading, like I did when I
responded to the question about mail alias in BBDB. :-(

I probably have to write my own yank, but I then need pointers to the
correct functions to test the text (the region is probably better then
the kill-ring) and remove any faces.

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(        http://hem.bredband.net/steverud/        !     Wei Wu Wei     )
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Re: Yanking text without properties?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, tvrud@bredband.net wrote:

> My question is; is there a yank-without-face, yank-without-properties
> or similar piece of code? I have not been able to found any.

Maybe buffer-substring-no-properties will work for you?

Ted