Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value

[Kim F. Storm]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

> I guess, in the case of a buffer, a new string would need to be created.

Exactly -- and a string with all properties duplicated.  Very wasteful, since
the value would be discarded in most (all) cases.

> Is
> that what you meant, or is there also a problem when the OBJECT (string)
> argument is explicitly supplied?

Not performancewise, but IMO it is not worth the efforts to change this just
for the string case.

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