Re: problem with text properties whose names aren't symbols

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Joe Corneli <jcorneli@planetmath.org> writes:

>>From the elisp manual (node: Text Properties):
>
>    Each property has a name and a value.  Both of these
>    can be any Lisp object, but the name is normally a symbol.
>
> Well, it seems that when the Lisp object is not a symbol,
> there is a problem.  This is illustrated by evaluating
> the following form interactively:
>
> (progn
>   (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) 
>                      '(example name)
>                       t)
>   (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) 
>                      '(example name)
>                       nil)
>   (text-properties-at (point)))

This is not a bug, because '(example name) and '(example name) are
distinct objects:

ELISP> (eq '(example name) '(example name))
nil

Try this instead:

(let ((name '(example name)))
  (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) name t)
  (put-text-property (point) (1+ (point)) name nil)
  (text-properties-at (point)))

Andreas.

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