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: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 09:47:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnl4nv9l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21365.44878.936634.958813@home.barzilay.org> <87a7cbti4n.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <83k1beqz6f.fsf@gnu.org> <837e7dpkfj.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgq0q3l9.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="252387"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org, eli@barzilay.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 17 08:48:35 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 1hysVv-0013Uh-FM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hysVu-0007ux-6k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hysVQ-0007uN-7B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hysVO-0004DL-Ux for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hysVO-0004D0-DI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:48:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hysVO-0004cj-AP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:48:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:48:02 +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=B17507.156602444817731 (code B ref 17507); Sat, 17 Aug 2019 06:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17507) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Aug 2019 06:47:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55285 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hysUq-0004bu-FO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51826) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hysUp-0004bi-0u for 17507@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hysUj-0003mJ-N4; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2173 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hysUj-0005El-CS; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 02:47:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sgq0q3l9.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700) 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:165246 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Eli Barzilay , 17507@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.