From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `call-process', to a string Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:32:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83y3afk42s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87woq0sf4a.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> <87pnvssegv.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> <87ftwotbkv.fsf@tcd.ie> <83efc7lx4w.fsf@gnu.org> <87y3afivju.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> <831s87lmg0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lg6facvz.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540902681 30994 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2018 12:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Garreau\, Alexandre" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 30 13:31:16 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 1gHTAt-0007qw-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTCz-00049A-Te for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTCG-0003QC-Nj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTCA-0007Zs-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:32:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTC1-0007Ss-HG; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2742 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gHTBw-00032e-6j; Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:32:21 -0400 In-reply-to: <87lg6facvz.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:230820 Archived-At: > From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" > Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:32:16 +0100 > > > "Point" only ever refers to Emacs buffers, never to anything else. > > Oh you’re right! Then with some context-sensitive deduction, you would > guess DESTINATION as a buffer. > > However having to rely on deduction and context to understand a piece of > doc looks silly, and if it does stuff with buffers it looks better to me > to clearly have the word “buffer” within near. So I believe it is > better with a such fix: thank you! You are welcome. However, it's still worth to make yourself familiar with "point" and its significance in Emacs, because you will see similar text all over the place.