RE: elispQ: How can I extract text from #("text" ... )

[Drew Adams]

> > AFAIK, string= ignores text properties and should do what
> > you want.
> 
> It does work, you are right.  It is that all the extra stuff is really
> not necessary in my application.  And it obscures debugging.

Then I guess your options are to either (1) prevent the string from having a
text property to begin with or (2) remove the text property.

For #1, you need to find where that happens. #2 is straightforward:

 (substring-no-properties string-w-text-props)

Depending on what you are doing, you might alternatively use a print function to
insert text (without faces) in a buffer.:

 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "foo" (princ some-text))

And if you are getting the text from a buffer in the first place, you can use
`buffer-substring-no-properties' instead of `buffer-substring'. See also
`insert-buffer-substring-no-properties'.

HTH