From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward' Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:26:14 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9tgn03d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y2yfo8fv.fsf@web.de> <834l10oj0n.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef04u3ay.fsf@web.de> <83y2ycn21v.fsf@gnu.org> <87zhissmtd.fsf@web.de> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="194598"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, 37488@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 25 12:27:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vs-000oN5-2V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:27:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48014 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vq-0001lN-NQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vi-0001lE-OZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:27:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vh-0003C3-R6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:60282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vh-0003By-O0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4Vh-00011q-It for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:27:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37488 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37488-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37488.15694072053925 (code B ref 37488); Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37488) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Sep 2019 10:26:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40870 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4VN-00011C-G6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60115) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4VJ-00010w-2T for 37488@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:59279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4VD-0002xw-Lb; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2390 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iD4VB-0006mf-06; Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:26:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zhissmtd.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:16:30 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167149 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org, 37488@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:16:30 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.