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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: trunk r113878: Refine previous change.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:42:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtxiqewkx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txirc596.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:01:41 -0400")

>> FWIW, I've fairly often written code which uses goto-char with
>> a position that can be outside of point-min...point-max, knowing that it
>> will go to the closest possible position.

> Did you ever pass a negative position?
> Were you passing a position outside the currently accessible portion of
> the buffer, but within the unnarrowed limits, or was it just an arbitrarily
> large value to mean "point-max" (and if so, why not just use point-max)?

Typically it's a slightly sloppy value.  E.g. (1- pos) or (1+ pos) or
just `pos' but where that position was valid in the past and some
buffer changes may have rendered it invalid.

So it typically is a valid position in 99% of the cases, but I know that
it's not guaranteed to be so in 100% of the cases.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-15 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1V9bet-0004qo-C7@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2013-08-14 19:34 ` trunk r113878: Refine previous change Glenn Morris
2013-08-14 19:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-14 22:30     ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-08-15  2:18       ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-16  0:22         ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-08-14 23:30     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-15  2:16       ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-15 12:29         ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-08-15 14:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-15 15:06           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 16:01           ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-15 16:42             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-15 17:18               ` Glenn Morris

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