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24.3.50; Inconsistent behavior of text property functions in narrowed buffer

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Message #44 received at 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: dancol <at> dancol.org, 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 08:56:26 -0500

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

>> From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
>> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>,  16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 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.

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.

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