* bug#11955: 24.1.50; nit about "point" vs "cursor" in error msg
@ 2012-07-17 6:06 Drew Adams
2012-07-17 6:40 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-07-17 6:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 11955
emacs -Q
C-h i
Put the cursor on a menu title such as `Emacs', not on a menu item.
Hit `RET'.
You see this user-error message:
"Point neither on reference nor in menu item description"
Technically, that's not quite correct. Point is a position. It is the
cursor position (just before it). A position is not "on" or "in"
something. It is more correct to say that the _cursor_ is not on...
In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2012-07-16 on MARVIN
Bzr revision: 109106 fabian@anue.biz-20120716171839-0dv19ib9h6vfggfn
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
Configured using:
`configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'
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* bug#11955: 24.1.50; nit about "point" vs "cursor" in error msg
2012-07-17 6:06 bug#11955: 24.1.50; nit about "point" vs "cursor" in error msg Drew Adams
@ 2012-07-17 6:40 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2012-07-17 6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 11955
> emacs -Q
> C-h i
> Put the cursor on a menu title such as `Emacs', not on a menu item.
> Hit `RET'.
> You see this user-error message:
> "Point neither on reference nor in menu item description"
> Technically, that's not quite correct. Point is a position. It is the
> cursor position (just before it). A position is not "on" or "in"
> something. It is more correct to say that the _cursor_ is not on...
`point' is definitely the Emacs-correct term here.
Stefan
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