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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: handa <handa@gnu.org>
Cc: gregory@heytings.org, 46933@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46933: Possible bugs in filepos-to-bufferpos / bufferpos-to-filepos
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:25:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rbugh7f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sg4arq9x.fsf@gnu.org> (message from handa on Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:14:02 +0900)

> From: handa <handa@gnu.org>
> Cc: gregory@heytings.org, 46933@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:14:02 +0900
> 
> By the way, what is the intention of filepos-to-bufferpos?  Why that
> function was introduce?

The original (and so far the only) use case was an Info manual
separated into several files, where the tag table at the end of the
main file specifies offsets in bytes.  See the function
Info-find-node-2 in info.el.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 21:21 bug#46933: Possible bugs in filepos-to-bufferpos / bufferpos-to-filepos Gregory Heytings
2021-03-21 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27  5:38   ` handa
2021-03-27  7:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 13:23       ` handa
2021-03-27 13:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-28 14:29           ` handa
2021-03-28 14:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-01 15:14               ` handa
2021-04-01 15:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-04-01 15:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-03 16:12                   ` handa
2022-06-20  0:59                     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 11:52                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-21 10:40                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-21 12:14                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-22  4:17                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-22 13:11                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-27 14:24     ` Gregory Heytings

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