From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: use-region-beginning Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:06:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r0alazj9.fsf@breatheoutbreathe.in> <86sev1hunf.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <865xrqphom.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11376"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 27 15:07:11 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sivud-0002ht-5V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sivtp-0004l9-4v; Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sivtn-0004kn-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sivtm-0003Pa-UP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:06:14 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=rKPYxiuaAtL0kmKeGPO/sHcl+oTp99ZyKmJETksO22Q=; b=SkuANSHcAYIP 26BgEAKBeBQ3sA4Hduw794OhOrbRqvwY/KtHZ/U1MYAzjmQsgrdZ5Fvx8YYdIpzmN7SvdWchtjMKk +1w3kGLAoyUNjWmHRjJwSWGPkxnRkkUvCd6RFi01HW3QvowGcmoTz5nSipWIReLPDP3qGKDY20pb4 FdvLQuuX44wiPIv9WS3UBbQKF+apvpV0WKY/JvxF+U3UA9otRhgtAMNzjPZFG312mJpueoCue2mjv ZpB4tNtDGHlcCDjjPJU7kPfWhWM2pPabyA3q70LwDo037UpC0lxdiKqu7eNGBNkvrUjf2wkPNUZ8M QJHvI/nT4I71mbcdDWVCLg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sivtl-0005pY-3z; Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:06:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <865xrqphom.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 24 Aug 2024 09:18:33 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323142 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The doc string of `use-region-beginning' is very terse, and doesn't give enough info to understand it. It doesn't explain when it makes sense to use this function and what it is good for. What purpose is achieved by using it? Could someone please add that? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)