GNU bug report logs - #16413
24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer

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Message #26 received at 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com, 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16413: 24.3.50;
 Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 10:27:53 +0200

> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:17:19 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
> CC: nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com, 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Narrowing is useful as a poor man's mmm-mode, among other things, and 
> programatically, it's useful for parsing delimited constructs (where we 
> can just narrow to the region of interest). Narrowing hasn't been a 
> purely visual hint, and plenty of lisp-level functions treat the edges 
> of the accessible portion of the buffer as real buffer ends. Since this 
> abstraction almost completely works today, we should try to fill any 
> remaining gaps.

You will find this not an easy task, I'm afraid.

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