From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 20:25:34 +0700 Message-ID: <037e45ba-ae4d-7aa7-bfa2-dd6a27aaff26@disroot.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530624256 27021 195.159.176.226 (3 Jul 2018 13:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:24:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 03 15:24:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1faLHv-0006vx-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 15:24:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faLK2-0003nQ-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58200) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faLJS-0003nA-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faLJO-0001Z6-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from knopi.disroot.org ([178.21.23.139]:38740) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faLJN-0001XA-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 09:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disroot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D453F2E1D0 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:25:39 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1530624339; bh=BRVcLOZYB6jwqFv1bd+NonPv+D3PFMgFdo5GcEhnq2A=; h=To:From:Subject:Date; b=q9aBFY6MoMLqvfl3cbHgs1KJtAuZD9RCzzGQ1aHk9lyY/M7zqjfngYWS7bjMPwMU2 WjSWrR02od1azj8c0ErL0+iZgZMUd1bX8Sf6DtwOV9sxjFfVD8QJeu4iNac26YtWhP EqkxOL2stS0tiJhbsNElMT4vtc6oT3IIPH80A64S73YoTaDKJwaOBkgjqbYtWb0ycd om7KPmKH59Uy+/X0x/W0ZgLN2WnLqO7AR842o4xjraFDDg7LrHI7eIwlzaoISn4TbV vlOL/zHB1WJFfVwgnrADihnxZ8bg5CxZWPLCbR5NdnvPfNRitSPZC8rHq+abpjv/NJ Tt/1Npue/LVUg== X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at disroot.org Original-Received: from knopi.disroot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (disroot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tB3ko-N0ud1c for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:25:39 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=disroot.org; s=mail; t=1530624339; bh=BRVcLOZYB6jwqFv1bd+NonPv+D3PFMgFdo5GcEhnq2A=; h=To:From:Subject:Date; b=q9aBFY6MoMLqvfl3cbHgs1KJtAuZD9RCzzGQ1aHk9lyY/M7zqjfngYWS7bjMPwMU2 WjSWrR02od1azj8c0ErL0+iZgZMUd1bX8Sf6DtwOV9sxjFfVD8QJeu4iNac26YtWhP EqkxOL2stS0tiJhbsNElMT4vtc6oT3IIPH80A64S73YoTaDKJwaOBkgjqbYtWb0ycd om7KPmKH59Uy+/X0x/W0ZgLN2WnLqO7AR842o4xjraFDDg7LrHI7eIwlzaoISn4TbV vlOL/zHB1WJFfVwgnrADihnxZ8bg5CxZWPLCbR5NdnvPfNRitSPZC8rHq+abpjv/NJ Tt/1Npue/LVUg== Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 178.21.23.139 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226901 Archived-At: I've noticed usage of "the cursor" and "point" throughout manuals and doc-strings. In what context is one preferred over the other? -- Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth