From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 23:37:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <863C33CF-82A6-43C3-8EE3-2082096C338B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d622de1d-47a6-4f23-8ffa-c6fc53fb190d@default>
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> On Jul 3, 2018, at 23:27, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> I've noticed usage of "the cursor" and "point" throughout manuals and
>> doc-strings. In what context is one preferred over the other?
>
> Point is the buffer position of the cursor (aka text cursor).
From the Introduction to Emacs Lisp:
"In Emacs, the current position of the cursor is called point. The expression (point) returns a number that tells you where the cursor is located as a count of the number of characters from the beginning of the buffer up to point."
Jean-Christophe Helary
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 13:25 "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-03 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-03 14:37 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2018-07-03 20:16 ` John Yates
2018-07-03 23:04 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 12:13 ` John Yates
2018-07-04 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-04 17:20 ` Drew Adams
2018-07-04 22:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-04 23:03 ` John ff
2018-07-04 2:27 ` Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth
2018-07-04 2:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-04 6:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-04 14:52 ` Drew Adams
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