Re: Problem report #53 -- real problem

[Miles Bader]

On 5/22/06, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is a real problem.
> Currently it IS possible to call text_property_stickiness
> with a POS value that is before BEGV.
>
> text_property_stickiness is called from get_pos_property,
> which is called from find_field, which is called from
> various user-level functions in editfns.c.
>
> I made sure the other callers can't call it with a POS value before BEGV.
> But this one case is hard, and I am not sure what is right to do here.

It seems like the field functions could just force POS to be >= BEGV
(if the user calls with a value outside of that, it should act like it
hit the edge of the narrowed region).  [Also <= ZV]

I'll try to add some code that does that.

-Miles
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