Re: Is it valid to call isearch-filter-predicate outside isearch?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > No.  It has does have side effects that are not documented.
>
> The question is: why do we have to document every possible nit of the
> internals?  I still don't think I understand the rationale.  People
> who want to know _everything_ about the code should consult the source
> code; it's the power of Free Software that they can do it.

It would not harm in this marginal case, but keeping all
such things up to date is probably beyond our capabilities.

And to prevent this specific problem in Org would have required
documenting a lot of more or less internal things.  In this case it is
indeed better to consult the code.

Michael.