On Thu Jan 24 2013 Sriram Karra wrote: > The function bbdb-divide-name uses substring to extract the first > and last names.
Note that this code uses both substring and match-string. And the latter uses substring, too (not substring-no-properties). So it really does not make sense to try to rely on functions like bbdb-divide-name to make sure that text properties do not propagate into the database. I guess this must have been a basic design decision for GNU Emacs years ago: By default GNU Emacs could either always propagate text properties, unless one explicitly uses a function such as substring-no-properties. Or by default these functions would not propagate text properties. The design decision was made in the former way, I believe for good reason. Otherwise, each function like match-string would require a second variant match-string-with-properties. Basic built-in functions like concat copy the text properties of their args, too. Yet this implies that you need to be careful when grabbing a text string: do you want to grab it with its text properties or without them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
