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

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:17:51 -0500

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Typical problematic questions:
> - should line-number-at-pos count from point-min or from 1?
> - should syntax-ppss consider that point-min is "outside of any
>   comment/string/paren/..."?

Apart from the consideration of breaking existing elisp, do you think
there's substantial disagreement on these questions?  In the case of the
second question at least, the answer seems obvious if the end goal is
proper syntax recognition in narrowed buffers.  But maybe that's naïve.