From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buffer-substring'.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:53:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv61v6cmxu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1VAAWJ-0007pJ-65@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Fri, 16 Aug 2013 03:16:11 +0000")
> +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.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-16 3:53 UTC|newest]
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2013-08-16 3:53 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-16 6:19 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113909: Refine the documentation of `insert-buffer-substring' Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-16 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-17 22:27 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-08-18 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
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