From: James N. V. Cash <james.cash@occasionallycogent.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: , Protesilaos Stavrou <public@protesilaos.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option COUNT argument to text-property-search functions
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:55:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsvvlgop.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fsvvk2bw.fsf@gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 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.
Hah, fair enough! I was discussing something with Protesilaos previously
that would've been made easier by having this support a count (versus
wrapping it in a dotimes), but I certainly can see why you'd want
to avoid adding yet another optional argument.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-30 19:55 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
2021-07-30 19:55 ` James N. V. Cash [this message]
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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