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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: get-text-property error if narrowed
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:47:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1J8fmv-0001iq-2r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47755B8E.5000401@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com)

    get-text-property signals an error if the position argument is outside a 
    narrowed region. That is very inconvenient. It would be much better if 
    it behaved like get-char-property which does not do this.

I just tried (get-char-property 1 'face) in my Rmail buffer and got an
error, so I think the two functions are alike in this regard.
I think that an error is the correct result in that case.
(buffer-substring also gives an error when the positions are out of range.)
Why do you think otherwise?

Is there a case in which get-char-property fails to give this error?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-29 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28 20:24 get-text-property error if narrowed Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-29 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 15:14   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-30  1:37     ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-30  1:47       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-30 14:02         ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-29 17:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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