From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.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: Tue, 11 May 2021 14:32:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsytpi1s.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8819BD-AA07-4870-8A90-98FB1F3D45E4@gmail.com> (Howard Melman's message of "Mon, 10 May 2021 09:06:08 -0400")
Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com> writes:
> What threw me (and I still think is problematic) is this line from the docstring:
>
> If not found, return nil and don't move point.
>
> And this line from the manual:
>
> If the text property can’t be found, the function returns ‘nil’.
I've now fixed the doc string in Emacs 28.
> Which I assume also infers point is not moved. If no region has the
> named property I can't see how it can be found and therefore point
> should not be moved. In fact I don't see how predicate even comes
> into play in this case.
I'm sorry, I don't follow you. It this still about
(text-property-search-forward 'facet 'foo)
? That works as designed, as far as I can tell. (But not as documented
in the Emacs 27.1 doc string.)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-11 12:32 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
[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 [this message]
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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