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bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward' |
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Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:26:14 +0300 |
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, 37488@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:16:30 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > note that PREDICATE -> nil means "not equal", so with VALUE -> nil this
> > > actually searches for non-nil values of the text property, which is a
> > > reasonable (and the expected) default behavior.
> >
> > Is it? IME, we usually search for a specific value, not for any
> > value.
>
> For me, yes, the function fills a certain gap.
Regardless, I think your and my surprise at the default is already a
good sign that the API is sub-optimal. After all, passing nil as a
mandatory argument is not an issue.
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Michael Heerdegen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Juanma Barranquero, 2019/09/23
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Michael Heerdegen, 2019/09/23
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Michael Heerdegen, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Michael Heerdegen, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward',
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/26
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/26
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/26
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/26
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/26
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/09/26