From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20411: 24.3; Docstring of `next-single-property-change' Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:31:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83bnie274h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21816.64705.641155.937890@home.barzilay.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429803220 21544 80.91.229.3 (23 Apr 2015 15:33:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20411@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Barzilay Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 17:33:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7w-0006J3-8C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:33:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7v-0003Wv-KZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7k-0003MD-92 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7f-0002YD-BX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7f-0002Y9-99 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ7f-0007F2-0I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:33:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:33:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20411 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20411-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20411.142980312627754 (code B ref 20411); Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:33:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20411) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2015 15:32:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37893 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ6j-0007DZ-Oo for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout25.012.net.il ([80.179.55.181]:47264) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YlJ6h-0007D4-5z for 20411@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout25.012.net.il by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NN900300MY0Z100@mtaout25.012.net.il> for 20411@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:27:39 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout25.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NN900J7LMY3KZ80@mtaout25.012.net.il>; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:27:39 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <21816.64705.641155.937890@home.barzilay.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:101935 Archived-At: > From: Eli Barzilay > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:08:01 -0400 > > The documentation for `next-single-property-change' has: > > Return nil if the property is constant all the way to the end of > object. If the value is non-nil, it is a position greater than > position, never equal. > > Both of these are wrong when a bound is given. Which is why the doc string says, right after the text you cited: If the optional fourth argument LIMIT is non-nil, don't search past position LIMIT; return LIMIT if nothing is found before LIMIT. Isn't this exactly what you were looking for?