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

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:16:30 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> > 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.

For me, yes, the function fills a certain gap.  But I'm not an expert on
that matter.

Michael.