Subject: Re: bug#37488: 27.0.50; Inconsistent naming of arg of `text-property-search-forward' and `-backward'

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:43:56 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>,  Lars Ingebrigtsen
>  <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:35:01 +0200
> 
> note that PREDICATE -> nil means "not equal", so with VALUE -> nil this
> actually searches for non-nil values of the text property, which is a
> reasonable (and the expected) default behavior.

Is it?  IME, we usually search for a specific value, not for any
value.