From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:39:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <037e45ba-ae4d-7aa7-bfa2-dd6a27aaff26@disroot.org> <0a994a51-b80b-9d78-9e9e-0d379ffa5733@disroot.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530671894 17617 195.159.176.226 (4 Jul 2018 02:38:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 02:38:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 04:38:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1faXgH-0004VC-R9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 04:38:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43666 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faXiP-0007x5-1m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faXiI-0007v5-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faXiF-0008JW-5S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=59891 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faXiE-0008HU-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:40:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1faXg0-0004EK-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 04:37:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:aWffqa6EAdK9jHCHULSv/HsrO/c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226926 Archived-At: > When do we use point over cursor, and vice versa, in documentation? "Point" is concerned about where operations will happen, whereas "cursor" is concerned about where the thingy will be drawn on screen. The cursor only moves when the display gets refreshed (i.e. once per command, more or less), whereas point can be modified by lots of intermediate operations, so it can change thousands of times within a single command. Stefan