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24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>, 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16413: 24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:09:58 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> So do you think the current behavior is consistent, or are you just
>> cautious about trying to change it?
>
> I'm cautious about changing this and don't see the apparent
> inconsistency as a big deal.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I don't think we want to change the behaviour at this point, as that
might break a lot of code subtly out there, but it should be documented.
So I've now done that in Emacs 29, and I'm closing this bug report.

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