From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16413: 24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:27:17 +0200 Message-ID: <838uum9sd6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mwj3fcal.fsf@nbtrap.com> <52D0C30D.9050305@dancol.org> <8361praqvc.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9f2670h.fsf@nbtrap.com> <83vbxqact5.fsf@gnu.org> <87zjn2y645.fsf@nbtrap.com> <83lhyma9fz.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbxq5mn7.fsf@nbtrap.com> <83a9f29tok.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwj2l1jb.fsf@nbtrap.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389472096 14898 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2014 20:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 20:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 16413@debbugs.gnu.org To: Nathan Trapuzzano Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 11 21:28:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W25AJ-0003re-Kh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Are people actually > supposed to know this? And who's to say there's searching involved? > What if I just want to look at the text properties at point? It > shouldn't matter whether the buffer is narrowed. I was just trying to help you have less special cases in your code, that's all. How are you supposed to know about that? by reading the available code of course. That's how I learned this.