From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth" <siraben@disroot.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 07:27:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d622de1d-47a6-4f23-8ffa-c6fc53fb190d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <037e45ba-ae4d-7aa7-bfa2-dd6a27aaff26@disroot.org>
> I've noticed usage of "the cursor" and "point" throughout manuals and
> doc-strings. In what context is one preferred over the other?
Point is the buffer position of the cursor (aka text cursor).
In the Emacs manual (`C-h r'), `i point' and `i cursor'
both take you to node `Point', which explains this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 13:25 "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-03 14:27 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-07-03 14:37 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-03 20:16 ` John Yates
2018-07-03 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 12:13 ` John Yates
2018-07-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-04 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-04 22:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 23:03 ` John ff
2018-07-04 2:27 ` Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-04 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-04 6:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-04 14:52 ` Drew Adams
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