From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:20:33 -0700 Message-ID: <875zmxsy72.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <21365.44878.936634.958813@home.barzilay.org> <87a7cbti4n.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="124637"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Barzilay Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 03:21:13 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 1hyQvY-000WIX-Uk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 03:21:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48298 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQvX-0002nl-Rv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:21:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQvS-0002nd-7o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQvR-0001xq-7Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43961) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQvR-0001xf-0m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQvQ-0004en-R0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:21:04 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:21:02 +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=B17507.156591844417853 (code B ref 17507); Fri, 16 Aug 2019 01:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17507) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Aug 2019 01:20:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52782 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQv6-0004dt-DG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:50630) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQv4-0004dl-9d for 17507@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [50.225.213.182] (helo=sandy) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyQuz-0000Py-JH; Fri, 16 Aug 2019 03:20:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Eli Barzilay's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:41:17 +0300") 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:165173 Archived-At: Eli Barzilay writes: > 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...). If there were a way to put properties on string objects in a Common Lisp implementation, I would expect that it would work just as it does in Emacs: Not wrapping the string in some other object, but just extend the object itself. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no