Concern about prop_find/-remove()

[Axel Forsman]

Hello all:

The functions prop_remove() and prop_find() allow one to specify which
properties
to remove/search for by providing the id and/or type.
However as a property matches if either the id or type matches,
this means that if you want to add several new properties of a particular type
and then remove a *single* one of those,
all id:s have to be unique.
This, of course, is impossible in the presence of multiple plugins
creating props.

Furthermore, I fail to see when the current behavior would actually be wanted.
Am I missing something, or could this perhaps be fixed in some way or another?


Well met,
Axel Forsman

[Bram Moolenaar]

It's possible that two plugins happen to use the same id or type in the
same line. For the type you can use a prefix to avoid most collisions.

A simple solution would be to add a "both" argument, then both the id
and the type needs to match. Does that solve your problem?

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