From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org, eli@barzilay.org
Subject: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:47:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnl4nv9l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgq0q3l9.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>, 17507@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > In Emacs, text properties are stored separately from the text itself.
> > In particular, text properties of a string are not part of the string
> > text, they live in a separate structure, and a string only maintains a
> > reference to that structure.
>
> Well, isn't that the same thing conceptually as the properties being in
> the string object?
It depends on your concepts. I'm trying to determine which part of
the related concepts contributed to the confusion reported in the bug
report.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-16 6:25 bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives Eli Barzilay
2019-08-14 23:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 3:41 ` Eli Barzilay
2019-08-15 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-16 1:35 ` Eli Barzilay
2019-08-16 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-16 20:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-17 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-17 22:22 ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-16 23:49 ` Eli Barzilay
2019-08-17 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-17 12:40 ` Eli Barzilay
2019-08-17 12:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-16 1:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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