After presenting a modal view on my UITableView controller when editing is on, I found that the values of self.editing and self.tableView.editing are different when the controller is dismissed (self.editing was still on but self.tableView.editing had gone off and the tableView was in a strange state).
To correct this, I did [self setEditing:NO animated:YES] when presenting the modal view.
I've discovered that these two lines do not do the same thing:
[self.tableView setEditing:NO animated:YES];
[self setEditing:NO animated:YES];
My questions are:
(1) why is there a difference in those commands and
(2) how can the state of self.editing and self.tableView.editing be different?
According the documentation
self.editing
A Boolean value indicating whether the viewController currently allows the user to edit the view contents
self.tableView.editing
A Boolean value that determines whether the table view is in editing mode.
I think you can understand by the definition it self, viewController editing refers to if the viewController allows editing.