Re: Text property searching

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

João Távora <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. What should happen if search starts in the region where the
> property is already set?

I think it should give you a match starting at point and ending where
the property ends.  

> 2. Can we generalize this to work for searches for regions where the
> property is set to some constant value and also for regions where the
> property is just present. What about "not-present"?

Well, that's what the two arguments do -- the match and the predicate,
so those are covered...

> Or do you envision this to be handled by the second and third
> arguments? Perhaps, in addition to the other type of value, both could
> also be passed a function: the second one a function of one arg, the
> buffer position, producing a value, and the third one a function of
> two values returning a boolean (this is vaguely CL's :key and :test,
> obviously).

Hm...  I don't quite see the need for the single-value function (i.e.,
the :key function) because the predicate can do whatever it wants.

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