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envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-pf1-f175.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:216078 Archived-At: Severity: wishlist The section '(emacs) Mark' starts with saying: "Many Emacs commands operate on an arbitrary contiguous part of the current buffer." This makes it sound like this is an unusual, super advanced feature, when in the rest of the world this is just known as "selecting text". We should avoid the words "arbitrary" and "contiguous" which, while accurate, comes off as extremely highbrow for such an extremely basic feature. We should re-work this section to contrast the unusual parts of point, mark and region to the types of text selection that exists in other editors. We can safely assume that the latter is well known.