From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:18:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Es9qz-000677-Jq@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICMENPDAAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
I can see from the C source that set-text-properties returns t
if that text had any properties before, nil if it had none.
I am not sure whether this is useful to document.
Now is not the time to consider changing the return value.
This is not a new feature, and the current value is not a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-28 21:59 set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value Drew Adams
2005-12-29 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 4:15 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-30 2:18 ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-12-30 3:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-30 3:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-12-30 11:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-29 11:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-12-29 16:03 ` Drew Adams
2005-12-29 19:41 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-30 0:57 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-18 19:37 ` Drew Adams
2006-02-19 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-29 22:41 ` Kim F. Storm
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