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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 20168@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20168: 25.0.50; (elisp) `Accessing Mouse', for `posn-object-x-y'
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 20:19:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d240sxmo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11c136fa-59e2-47ed-8dac-4ce32aa91845@default>

> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 
> The doc string is OK.  The manual is misleading/incorrect, in this
> regard: it speaks about a case where "the POSITION is a buffer
> position".  This is wrong, as a buffer position in Emacs means a natural
> number 1,2... (or a marker).

Why is it wrong?

> Maybe what should be said in this case is
> that "POSITION represents a buffer position".  Its value cannot be
> simply a buffer position, which is a number or a marker.

Why not?  And what's the difference between the current text and your
suggestion?

Or maybe you could provide an example where the docs are wrong.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-22 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-22 18:14 bug#20168: 25.0.50; (elisp) `Accessing Mouse', for `posn-object-x-y' Drew Adams
2015-03-22 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] <<11c136fa-59e2-47ed-8dac-4ce32aa91845@default>
     [not found] ` <<83d240sxmo.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-03-22 18:47   ` Drew Adams
2015-03-23 16:41     ` Eli Zaretskii

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