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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
Cc: 48317@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48317: 27.1; text-property-search-forward moves point to end when not found
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 20:48:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lf8n7q8d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <616F7732-ED83-40F0-A460-9298608EAD91@gmail.com> (message from Howard Melman on Sun, 9 May 2021 13:28:09 -0400)

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> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 13:28:09 -0400
> 
> > On May 9, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> To reproduce in emacs -Q, with point at beginning of *scratch* buffer with
> >> text in it, eval:
> >> 
> >> (require 'text-property-search)
> >> (text-property-search-forward 'facet 'foo)
> >> 
> >> point is moved to end of buffer.
> > 
> > How do you know it "didn't find" in this case? what was the value it
> > returned?
> 
> It returned (from *Messages*):
> 
> #s(prop-match 75 222 nil)
> 
> I tried again with an explicative-laden property name and the value 'foo and it returned:
> 
> #s(prop-match 77 224 nil)
> 
> If I change 'foo to nil it does not move point.

So in your original use case it _did_ find a match, which is why it
moved point.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-09 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-09 16:41 bug#48317: 27.1; text-property-search-forward moves point to end when not found Howard Melman
2021-05-09 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <616F7732-ED83-40F0-A460-9298608EAD91@gmail.com>
2021-05-09 17:48     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]       ` <8877DDB9-7D2B-4DCC-8374-EB8391134EAC@gmail.com>
2021-05-09 18:33         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-09 19:48           ` Howard Melman
2021-05-10  9:05           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-10 13:06             ` Howard Melman
2021-05-11 12:32               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-11 12:48                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-11 13:14                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-11 14:20                 ` Howard Melman
2021-05-11 16:36                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-11 19:28                     ` Howard Melman
2021-05-11 23:18                       ` Stephen Berman
2021-05-12 14:16                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-05-12 16:29                         ` Howard Melman
2021-05-12 16:55                           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]                             ` <5AA9C2CD-D20B-4B9D-83D6-9002E9396558@gmail.com>
2022-05-13 18:32                               ` Howard Melman
2022-05-14  2:19                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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