From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: default-text-properties Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:33:22 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200405200133.i4K1XMT18564@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085018253 16715 80.91.224.253 (20 May 2004 01:57:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 01:57:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 20 03:57:22 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 1BQcoE-00073r-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 03:57:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQcoD-0007Iz-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 03:57:21 +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 1BQcZJ-0000D2-1W for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 21:41:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQcXK-0007zM-SG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 21:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BQcWn-0007oO-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 21:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BQcRd-0006av-8p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2004 21:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4K1XiTS012931 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:33:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i4K1XMT18564; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:33:22 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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:23755 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23755 I did: emacs-21.3.50 -q --eval "(blink-cursor-mode 0)" Execute the following example from (elisp)Examining Properties: (setq default-text-properties '(foo 69) char-property-alias-alist nil) nil (set-text-properties 1 2 nil) t (get-text-property 1 'foo) nil in the *scratch* buffer, or apparently any other buffer. The last value should not have been nil, but 69. It was 69 in CVS from, I believe, less than two days ago. I have read through the code of Fget_text_property and the functions it calls. That code should result in a return value of 69. From checking on Savannah, no changes to any of that code occurred since a few days ago, when it _did_ return 69. Complete mystery to me. Did anybody make changes recently that could explain this? Sincerely, Luc.