GNU bug report logs - #40000
27.0.60; next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Yuan Fu <casouri <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 15:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.60

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 40000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: casouri <at> gmail.com, 40000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40000: 27.0.60;
 next-single-char-property-change hangs on bad argument
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:04:57 +0300

> From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:52:17 +0200
> Cc: 40000 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> I'm attaching a patch which solves the issue. Now, all the
> `next-*-property-change' functions return LIMIT when it has been
> specified and no properties where found up to the buffer's end.

Doesn't that contradict the documentation?  It says:

  If the property is constant all the way to the end of OBJECT, return the
  last valid position in OBJECT.

Your change means this will no longer be true when LIMIT > EOB.

Thanks.
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