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24.3; Docstring of `next-single-property-change'

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
Cc: 20411 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20411: 24.3; Docstring of `next-single-property-change'
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:31:58 +0300

> From: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:08:01 -0400
> 
> The documentation for `next-single-property-change' has:
> 
>   Return nil if the property is constant all the way to the end of
>   object.  If the value is non-nil, it is a position greater than
>   position, never equal.
> 
> Both of these are wrong when a bound is given.

Which is why the doc string says, right after the text you cited:

  If the optional fourth argument LIMIT is non-nil, don't search
  past position LIMIT; return LIMIT if nothing is found before LIMIT.

Isn't this exactly what you were looking for?

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