kill-region must change value of (point)?

kill-region must change value of (point)?

[seberino]

If I kill-region to delete some portion of
buffer that includes where I'm at right
now ( denoted by (point) right? ) then
there is no way to avoid changing value
of (point) because I must be moved somewhere
else after the deletion right?

Chris
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RE: kill-region must change value of (point)?

[Bingham, Jay]

Chris,

You are correct.  If point is somewhere within the region it is "moved" to be between the last character before the region that was not deleted, and the first character after the region that was not deleted.  If it follows the region, its value is changed (reduced) by the amount of text removed.  If it is before the region it remains unchanged.
You can read all about this in the emacs lisp reference manual.

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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	seberino@spawar.navy.mil [mailto:seberino@spawar.navy.mil] 
Sent:	Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:22 PM
To:	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:	kill-region must change value of (point)?

If I kill-region to delete some portion of
buffer that includes where I'm at right
now ( denoted by (point) right? ) then
there is no way to avoid changing value
of (point) because I must be moved somewhere
else after the deletion right?

Chris
-- 
_______________________________________

Dr. Christian Seberino
SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego
Code 2363
49590 Lassing Road, Room A339
San Diego, CA 92152-6147
U.S.A.

Phone: (619) 553-7940
Fax:   (619) 553-1269
Email: seberino@spawar.navy.mil
_______________________________________


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