Re: question about narrowed behavior of next-property-change et al.

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Since the suggested change would only effect narrowed buffers, and only
>     to make them act more like a normal non-narrowed buffer, I would think
>     that only code that explicitly uses narrowing is potentially a problem
>     (under the assumption that a narrowed buffer should usually appear to
>     lisp code as if it were a normal buffer containing only the narrowed
>     region).
> 
> This reasoning is plausible indeed, but I still think that whoever
> changes this should also check the callers one buy one.

Instead of spending this time, I'd rather bet $1000 that Miles's change will
not introduce any new bug: it might make an existing bug show up more
often, but introducing a new bug with his suggested change seems incredibly
unlikely.


        Stefan