From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: grischka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Emacs learning curve Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:02:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4C571663.8070702@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280775802 10557 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 19:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 19:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: drew.adams@ORACLE.COM Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 21:03:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0I9-00023c-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:03:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36201 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og0I8-0000Zr-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36273 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og0I0-0000Zb-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0Hz-0004Fe-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:41506 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og0Hy-0004FE-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:03:07 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Aug 2010 19:03:03 -0000 Original-Received: from 184.121.113.82.net.de.o2.com (EHLO [10.54.28.236]) [82.113.121.184] by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 02 Aug 2010 21:03:03 +0200 X-Authenticated: #18588216 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19V8ShJsqJVBd53R7+O5uXKa+uLt2TjB6S0Tju6P5 ELomZJ1bMomHN3 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-References: A06F7D015D864723AD54109F2C962A43@us.oracle.com X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128150 Archived-At: > So now you will need to make clear when you mean the cursor as the visible > thing that is on a character (display artifact) and when you mean the > position before that character. Users don't need to make such distinction and hackers don't have to (as in an integer world there is no position before a character other than the position of the character before). --- grischka