From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Text property searching Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:49:11 +0200 Message-ID: <877ep7x77s.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87lgdo5bb3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87in8r16b0.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87d0yz15a3.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87604r143y.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <20180416194034.GB5637@ACM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523908071 20514 195.159.176.226 (16 Apr 2018 19:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:47:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= , emacs-devel To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 21:47:47 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 1f8A6N-0005FC-6e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:47:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A8T-0001mq-V0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A8J-0001jD-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A8F-0005lt-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:47 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:45689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A8E-0005l4-Pf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:49:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 46.67.12.60.tmi.telenormobil.no ([46.67.12.60] helo=corrigan) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A8A-0004Ww-D5; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:49:40 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by corrigan with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f8A7p-0007vH-1k; Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:49:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20180416194034.GB5637@ACM> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:40:34 +0000") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 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:224673 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Very much so. If there is a category text property at some point, and > the symbol it uses has a foo property, that will normally get seen by > the text property primitives. However, if you put a foo text property > there with a nil value, that nil value will mask the intent of the > category property. Hm. I am completely unfamiliar with the category stuff -- how is this used in practice? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no