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[PATCH] Add tests for text-property-search to check prop-match-value

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 36486 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#36486: [PATCH] Add tests for text-property-search to check prop-match-value
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 23:51:57 +0300

>> +   (let* ((property (completing-read "Search for property: " obarray))
>> +          (property (when (> (length property) 0)
>> +                      (intern property obarray)))
>> +          (value (when property
>> +                   (completing-read "Search for property value: " obarray)))
>> +          (value (when (> (length value) 0)
>> +                   (intern value obarray))))
>
> Hm...  well, the value doesn't have to be a symbol, so I don't think
> this is quite right -- it could be a string, or, well, anything.  I
> think that's why it doesn't prompt for value in the interactive form,
> because it didn't seem useful.

But searching for a certain font-lock face value is the most useful
application of this command.  How do you do that?

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