From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buffer-substring'. Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:19:37 +0300 Message-ID: <838v02nona.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376633962 31086 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2013 06:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 16 08:19:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VADNa-0005s9-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:19:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56760 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VADNa-0005K5-Gc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VADNT-0005J7-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VADNM-0005fI-AU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:19:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:49987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VADNM-0005eu-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 02:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MRM005001IPME00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:19:06 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MRM005K31JTIB90@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:19:06 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:162797 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:53:49 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > +into the current buffer before point. The text inserted is the region > > +between @var{start} (inclusive) and @var{end} (exclusive). (These > > That is misleading: buffer positions are *between* characters (or > alternatively, characters are placed *between* buffer positions). > Talking about "inclusive" and "exclusive" here makes it sound like > buffer positions are placed *on* characters. Are you saying that characters don't have positions? We say "character at POSITION", and we mean that. What is misleading here?