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Text property searching
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
Text property searching |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:56:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
I've suggested a few times before that it would be nice to have search
functions that are... nicer... than the ones we have now
(`text-property-any' and `next-single-property-change'), and the
maintainer(s) at the time said "sure". I think.
But I never implemented that wonderful function, because I could never
decide what it would look like.
But last night I think I got it: It should be just like search-forward,
only not. (Hm. I'm feeling a slight sense of deja vu while typing
this -- have I had this revelation before but forgotten about it?)
Anyway:
Let's say you have a region in the buffer that has the text property
`shr-url' with the value "http://fsf.org/", then:
(text-property-search-forward 'shr-url "http://fsf.org/" t)
would place point at the end of that region, and `match-beginning' and
`match-end' would point to the start and end.
The `t' there is the predicate: `t' means "equal", `nil' means "not
equal", and then you can write your own predicates for other uses.
So, to collect all urls from text properties, you'd write:
(while (text-property-search-forward 'shr-url nil nil)
(push (get-text-property (match-beginning 0) 'shr-url) urls))
and that's it. Or to collect all images:
(while (text-property-search-forward 'display 'image
(lambda (elem val)
(and (consp elem)
(eq (car elem) val))))
(push (plist-get (cdr (get-text-property (match-beginning 0) 'display)) :data)
images))
Does this look OK to everybody?
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