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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el index 49e196d3bfc..1f2dcfe9dd0 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/text-property-search.el @@ -46,18 +46,19 @@ If PREDICATE is nil, a value will match if is not `equal' to VALUE. Furthermore, the match region is ended if the value changes. For instance, this means that if you loop with - (while (text-property-search-forward 'face) + (while (setq prop (text-property-search-forward 'face)) ...) you will get all distinct regions with different `face' values in -the buffer. +the buffer, and the `prop' object will have the details about the +match. If NOT-CURRENT is non-nil, the function will search for the first region that doesn't include point and has a value of PROPERTY that matches VALUE. If no matches can be found, return nil and don't move point. -If found, move point to the start of the region and return a +If found, move point to the end of the region and return a `prop-match' object describing the match. To access the details of the match, use `prop-match-beginning' and `prop-match-end' for the buffer positions that limit the region, and @@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ the buffer positions that limit the region, and "Search for the previous region of text whose PROPERTY matches VALUE. Like `text-property-search-forward', which see, but searches backward, -and if a matching region is found, place point at its end." +and if a matching region is found, place point at the start of the region." (interactive (list (let ((string (completing-read "Search for property: " obarray))) |