Re: Text property searching

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 4/16/18 1:56 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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.

Sounds quite nice.

> The `t' there is the predicate: `t' means "equal", `nil' means "not
> equal", and then you can write your own predicates for other uses.

"Equals or includes" should be another popular predicate (think faces).