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Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives

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Message #30 received at 17507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17507 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
Subject: Re: bug#17507: Documentation for `add-text-property' and relatives
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:04:34 -0700

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

> In Emacs, text properties are stored separately from the text itself.
> In particular, text properties of a string are not part of the string
> text, they live in a separate structure, and a string only maintains a
> reference to that structure.

Well, isn't that the same thing conceptually as the properties being in
the string object?  However things are arranged internally (with a
reference to a different struct or being in the in the same struct),
from the Emacs Lisp side of thing, the string object has properties.

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