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From: | Kim F. Storm |
Subject: | Re: set-text-properties, remove-set-properties, add-text-properties: 1) doc string 2) return value |
Date: | Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:41:37 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"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. -- Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
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