From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Text property searching Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:52:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83lgdn2dco.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lgdo5bb3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87in8r16b0.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87d0yz15a3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87604r143y.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87wox7yrz8.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87muy3ypl8.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523904630 13370 195.159.176.226 (16 Apr 2018 18:50:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 20:50:26 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Cq-0003N0-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Ex-0006wf-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47952) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Ek-0006vO-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Eg-0001JH-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49620) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Eg-0001J9-0Y; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1104 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f89Ef-0006xL-Fs; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:17 -0400 In-reply-to: <87muy3ypl8.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:26:59 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224667 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 20:26:59 +0200 > > -- Function: text-property-search-forward prop value predicate > Search for the next region that has text property PROP set to VALUE > according to PREDICATE. > > This function is modelled after ‘search-forward’ and friends in > that it moves point, but it returns a structure that describes the > match instead of returning it in ‘match-beginning’ and friends. I thought you were designing a command (since search-forward is a command). But t looks like this is just another API, in which case I must ask how is it different from the existing primitives. A command will make a lot more sense to me. Thanks.