Re: Render a buffer or string to a simpler string?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.381.1369510626.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> I'm currently fixing Company's popup overlay positioning and display
> interacts with org-indent-mode. The latter adds `line-prefix' text
> properties everywhere in the buffer, and they influence the offset of
> each line of the popup "rectangle".
> 
> Is there an easy way to convert a string with `line-prefix' and,
> optionally, `prefix' and `display' properties to a string without those
> properties corresponding to how the former string is going to be
> displayed?
> 
> Or, instead of a string, convert a buffer?

(remove-list-of-properties 0 (length string)
                           '(line-prefix prefix display)
                           string)

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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