From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lispref/text.texi Date: 02 Jul 2006 07:55:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44A77B86.3050606@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151841369 23508 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2006 11:56:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 02 13:56:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx0YT-00059E-Gr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 13:56:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx0YS-0003Z5-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx0YG-0003Yi-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx0YE-0003Vo-KA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fx0YE-0003VV-E2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fx0lR-0002Kz-OT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 08:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1Fx0YD-0005pJ-4T; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:55:45 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Roehler In-Reply-To: <44A77B86.3050606@easy-emacs.de> Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56367 Archived-At: Andreas Roehler writes: > "Keep in mind that point is always between two > characters, and the cursor appears on the character > after point." > > Given the group of users indicated, I fear a certian > danger of distraction and/or confusion from it. if we drop this, we will see more questions than now; more confusion arises from forgetting this detail, which properly can be considered as relating to the design of emacs, not just its implementation. anyway, the "group of users indicated" is people who wish to program emacs using emacs lisp, for which even a small bit of implementation detail can sometimes be considered as design detail. (they are more likely to blur the line, being programmers, and thus Confused By Choice.) i will look at text.texi this week, as well, starting from the end and working backwards (but "accumulating" forwards :-). thi