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> From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
> Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:21:57 +0100
> 
> > Will the following minor change make that abundantly clear?
> >
> >  Insert output in buffer DESTINATION before point; t means current buffer;
> 
> Yes it does.

Fixed.

> > (What else can "insert in ... before point" mean, in Emacs?)
> 
> In this docstring, it may be interpreted as a filename referred by a
> string, or something referred by another value (the two-streams list).

"Point" only ever refers to Emacs buffers, never to anything else.