How to get rid of text attributes?

[Mats Lidell]

>>>>> Skip wrote:

Skip> Copying the text and pasting to another buffer retains that
Skip> highlighting.

I have been hit by that at occasions too. I wonder now. Shouldn't the
default be to just paste the text? What is the reasoning behind
pasting the whole extent? The need for a good sister function pops up
as well, like yank-text or yank-extent depending on the default!?

Yours
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%% Mats