comint hands the input sender its buffer text with font-lock's properties
still on it, and prin1 writes such a string as #(...) — which the daemon
reads as a bare symbol followed by a stray list, so the field stops being
a string without anything saying so. The wire layer strips rather than
asking every caller to remember: it is the one place that knows the text
is about to become bytes.
Joseph Ferano
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