From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what is the point of point-min? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:34:35 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F4E4B3B.6080208@yahoo.com> References: <3F4E2B31.5070904@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062096927 18285 80.91.224.253 (28 Aug 2003 18:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 20:55:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19sRvZ-00073a-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:55:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19sRqF-0001ac-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:49:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1062095647 11441595 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116218 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12135 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12135 Jesper Harder wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: >>Besides the point-min confusion, kill-region should be called with >>(region-beginning) and (region-end) which usually -- but not always >>-- correspond to (point) and (mark). > > Is this the way they work: > > (defun region-beginning () > (min (point) (mark))) > > (defun region-end () > (max (point) (mark))) > > or are there other instances where `region-beginning' is different > from `point'? That's not how they're implemented (see editfns.c), but the result is the same according to The Region node of the Emacs Lisp manual. -- Kevin Rodgers