Subject: Re: bug#16413: 24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:05:42 +0200

> From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:24:30 -0500
> 
> For an example of where this is problematic, look at the patch I
> submitted last night on this list.  I was patching functions that use
> the text property search functions and had to make a special case for
> where point is at (point-max) and the buffer is narrowed.

point-max is and will always be a special case.  There's no way around
that.