Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:48:32 -0400
> 
> > I don't think this will be much simpler than just the first method
> > above: the way to find where the property started is just one
> > previous-single-property-change call away, right?
> 
> Not necessarily if the property ends up split into two (or
> more) sections.

The function has the LIMIT argument.

> Or rather, yes that's what it would boil down to in the redisplay, but
> in terms of resulting behavior we'd have bugs whenever the property span
> gets split into several spans.

If this is a danger, then this feature is not workable at all for
buffer text.