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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
	37488@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward'
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:35:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef04u3ay.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834l10oj0n.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:52:08 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>  . What is the reason for having VALUE an optional argument?  Is it a
>  frequent/useful operation to look for a VALUE of nil?

I also wondered about the optional args, semantics is a bit unusual:
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.  I needed to read it
twice.

Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-25  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-23  6:03 bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward' Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-23  7:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-23  7:47   ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-25  8:52   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-25  9:35     ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-09-25  9:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-25 10:16         ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-25 10:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-25 13:17           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-25 15:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-26 15:13               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-25 13:15     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-25 15:01       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-26 14:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-26 15:13           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-26 15:12         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-26 17:05           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-26 19:16             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-26 19:24               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:15                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 14:33                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:36                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-28 14:45                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-26  5:55     ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-09-26  7:33       ` Eli Zaretskii

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