bug#35718: 26.2; Functions in yank-handled-properties ALWAYS get called

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the question is more about whether we distinguish between an
> absent property, and a property whose value is nil
> (remove-yank-excluded-properties currently does not, which is what I
> think this bug report is complaining about).  The manual doesn't say
> either way, but text-property-any (and other property checking
> functions) seem to treat them the same as well:
>
> (text-property-any 0 2 'xxx nil (propertize "foo" 'xxx nil)) ;=> 0
> (text-property-any 0 2 'xxx nil (propertize "foo" 'xxx t)) ;=> nil
> (text-property-any 0 2 'xxx nil "foo") ;=> 0

I think that we don't (in general) care about the difference of a nil
property and a missing property, so if I understand the snippet
correctly, this is basically working as intended, so I'm closing this
bug report.

If I misunderstood, please respond to the debbugs address and we'll
reopen.

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