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bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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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 15:17:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> 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. But I'm not an expert on
> that matter.
In my experience, we almost never search for a specific value for a text
property, but any text that has that property. That's why I added the
nil PREDICATE to avoid having to supply that awkward lambda into every
function I wrote...
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- 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, 2019/09/25
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward',
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- 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
- bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward', Eli Zaretskii, 2019/09/26