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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 03:07:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #86 received at 16413 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nathan Trapuzzano <nbtrap <at> nbtrap.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Daniel Colascione <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: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:17:51 -0500
Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> 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.




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