GNU bug report logs - #48317
27.1; text-property-search-forward moves point to end when not found

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 16:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 48317 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48317: 27.1; text-property-search-forward moves point to end when not found
Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 20:07:51 +0300

> From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 12:41:17 -0400
> 
> 
> The documentation of function text-property-search-forward says:
> 
>     If not found, return nil and don’t move point.
> 
> Yet I find it moves point to eob.
> 
> To reproduce in emacs -Q, with point at beginning of *scratch* buffer with
> text in it, eval:
> 
> (require 'text-property-search)
> (text-property-search-forward 'facet 'foo)
> 
> point is moved to end of buffer.

How do you know it "didn't find" in this case? what was the value it
returned?
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