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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