From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 17507@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Subject: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgq0q3l9.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837e7dpkfj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2019 11:46:08 +0300")
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? However things are arranged internally (with a
reference to a different struct or being in the in the same struct),
from the Emacs Lisp side of thing, the string object has properties.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 20:04 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 [this message]
2019-08-17 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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