From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:30:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83k1beqz6f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21365.44878.936634.958813@home.barzilay.org> <87a7cbti4n.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="80531"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Eli Barzilay Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 15 16:31:20 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGme-000Kfh-OU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:31:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGmd-0002K9-JL for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:31:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55818) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGmR-0002Ip-2h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:31:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGmM-00082b-Tj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43297) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGmL-00080j-WB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGmL-0001mT-Rd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:31:01 -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, 15 Aug 2019 14:31:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 17507 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 17507-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B17507.15658794186787 (code B ref 17507); Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:31:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17507) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2019 14:30:18 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52118 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGld-0001lO-Lk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43253) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGlZ-0001kC-0K for 17507@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGlT-0006kx-QK; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1790 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGlT-0002SE-5r; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:30:07 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Barzilay on Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:41:17 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165095 Archived-At: > From: Eli Barzilay > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:41:17 +0300 > Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org > > Um... Note that I referred *explicitly* to other lisps and schemes. > The assumption that I'm talking about would hold for people who are > used to CL too: a string is indeed more than just a pointer bytes with > a NUL at the end, yet there is no way to change a *property* of "foo" > and end up with #("foo" stuff...). Can you explain in more detail what did you think was missing from the manual? I've read the original report, and I admit I didn't understand what was the essence of your difficulty. Thanks.