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set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc
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Drew Adams |
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set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:59:36 -0800 |
1. The set-text-properties doc string should say what the function returns.
2. Wouldn't it be more useful for set-text-properties,
remove-set-properties, and add-text-properties to return the modified OBJECT
(or nil if no modification occurred)? In case OBJECT is a buffer (or nil),
the modified buffer substring could be returned.
Perhaps it's too late to make the change in #2, if existing code depends on
the current value - but maybe not:
- In the case of set-text-properties, that value is not even documented.
- In the case of remove-set-properties and add-text-properties, perhaps
existing code only tests whether the returned value is null (instead of
testing equality with t).
- set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Stefan Monnier, 2005/12/28
- RE: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Drew Adams, 2005/12/28
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Richard M. Stallman, 2005/12/29
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/12/29
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/12/29
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, David Kastrup, 2005/12/30
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Kim F. Storm, 2005/12/29
- RE: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Drew Adams, 2005/12/29
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Kevin Rodgers, 2005/12/29
- Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value, Juri Linkov, 2005/12/29