From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: default-text-properties Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:17:48 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200405200133.i4K1XMT18564@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <200405200301.i4K31BR18694@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085063782 10073 80.91.224.253 (20 May 2004 14:36:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 16:36:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQoed-0007Mt-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 16:36:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQoed-00083a-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 16:36:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQnS6-00026F-Cj for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 09:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQnRH-00020D-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 09:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQnQj-0001so-NS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 09:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQnQj-0001sX-70 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2004 09:17:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BQnQi-0004yM-PQ; Thu, 20 May 2004 09:17:48 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200405200301.i4K31BR18694@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Wed, 19 May 2004 22:01:11 -0500 (CDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23786 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23786 In other words, default-text-properties is only consulted for foo if char-property-alias-alist contains foo as a key. Hence: Completely undocumented (actually explicitly contradicted with the above example) in the Elisp manual and the relevant docstrings. I suspect this is a bug. If so, it is trivial to fix. It is a bug; would you please fix it?