From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: James N V Cash <james.cash@occasionallycogent.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option COUNT argument to text-property-search functions
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:51:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsvvk2bw.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im0rlias.fsf@gmail.com> (James N. V. Cash's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:20:59 -0400")
James N V Cash <james.cash@occasionallycogent.com> writes:
> This allows searching forward for the Nth occurance of the text
> property, analogously to re-search-forward/backward.
I don't think I've ever registered seeing COUNT used in the wild for
those functions, and I think it's a design flaw to have them. So I'm
not in favour of adding those to more functions.
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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-30 19:20 [PATCH] Add option COUNT argument to text-property-search functions James N V Cash
2021-07-30 19:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-30 19:55 ` James N. V. Cash
2021-07-30 21:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-07-31 6:56 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2021-07-31 11:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-30 20:49 ` James Cash
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