From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11955: 24.1.50; nit about "point" vs "cursor" in error msg Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:06:32 -0700 Message-ID: <360BC912D76F4067B76F374C0DA2C41B@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342505233 18873 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2012 06:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:07:13 +0000 (UTC) To: 11955@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 17 08:07:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr0w9-0004lg-CN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:07:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr0w8-0007lR-2x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Hit `RET'. You see this user-error message: "Point neither on reference nor in menu item description" Technically, that's not quite correct. Point is a position. It is the cursor position (just before it). A position is not "on" or "in" something. It is more correct to say that the _cursor_ is not on... In GNU Emacs 24.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2012-07-16 on MARVIN Bzr revision: 109106 fabian@anue.biz-20120716171839-0dv19ib9h6vfggfn Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 Configured using: `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-3.0.9/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libiconv-1.13.1-1-dev/include -ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libxml2-2.7.8/include/libxml2'