From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what is the point of point-min? Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 19:05:49 +0200 Organization: http://purl.org/harder/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3F4E2B31.5070904@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062094386 25223 80.91.224.253 (28 Aug 2003 18:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 20:13:04 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 19sRGa-0004QZ-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:13:04 +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 19sRFr-00033n-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:12:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!uucp.gnuu.de!newsfeed.arcor-online.net!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r; 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:12132 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12132 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'?