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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#47711: [PATCH VERSION 2] Add new `completion-filter-completions` API and deferred highlighting |
Date: | Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:26:58 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 |
On 14.08.2021 10:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Just to make sure we are on the same page: adding a text property to a string doesn't mutate a string. Lisp programs that process these strings will not necessarily see any difference, and displaying those strings will also not show any difference if the property is not related to display. So the assumption that seems to be made here, that adding a property is the same as mutating a string, is IMO inaccurate if not incorrect.
This is nonsense.A program won't necessarily see a difference in *any* changed value, as long as some part of it stays the same.
I can zero out the tail of a string, and have a program that only looks at its first few characters. It wouldn't mean that a string hasn't changed.
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