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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:58:51 +0200

> From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 14:44:28 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> But when dealing with text properties (and apparently only when dealing
> >> with text properties), there are _two_ special cases: (point-max) in a
> >> narrowed buffer, and (point-max) in a widened buffer.
> >
> > Not if you never look at the properties when you hit the limit of the
> > search for previous/next property change.
> 
> That may be true for searching, but the problem for fetching
> (`get-text-property', etc.) remains.

You need to fetch after searching, and never do that when the search
hits the limit.