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Re: [PATCH] Add option COUNT argument to text-property-search functions


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option COUNT argument to text-property-search functions
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 21:51:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

James N V Cash <james.cash@occasionallycogent.com> writes:

> This allows searching forward for the Nth occurance of the text
> property, analogously to re-search-forward/backward.

I don't think I've ever registered seeing COUNT used in the wild for
those functions, and I think it's a design flaw to have them.  So I'm
not in favour of adding those to more functions.

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