Re: text_property_stickiness

[Miles Bader]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>> Why do you think an error is the correct thing here?
>>
>> My feeling (when Richard brought this up earlier) was that perhaps the
>> out-of-range value should be constrained to be within BEGV-ZV.
>
> I don't think it's the wrong thing to do.  It's also similar to the
> current behavior for other Lisp-visible functions, for example:
>
> C-u 10 a
> M-: (narrow-to-region 3 4)
> M-: (text-properties-at 1)

I just checked the code and since `get_pos_property' is only called with
the initial position being passed by the original caller, I think you're
right, it does make sense to signal an error if it's out of range.

-Miles
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