From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:22:08 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="220591"; 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 Sun Aug 18 00:23:12 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 1hz76N-000vEp-C4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38346 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hz76M-0007aH-9z for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:23:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hz76G-0007Zz-1D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:23:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hz76E-0006iP-Vp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hz76E-0006iL-TR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hz76E-0001RW-KH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:23:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:23:01 +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=B17507.15660805375480 (code B ref 17507); Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 17507) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Aug 2019 22:22:17 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57036 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hz75V-0001QK-Ia for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:22:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:34453) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hz75S-0001Q6-TG for 17507@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:22:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hz75N-0006Hm-HR; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hz75M-00075x-CK; Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:22:08 -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:165296 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. The string object has properties. 20 years ago, that was not merely conceptually true: the tree of properties was stored in a slot in the string. I don't know whether the structure has changed since then, but the concept has not changed. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)