From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: point-min and 1
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:30:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbwakajo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4A850F3A.3010005@gmx.at
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>>> I'd opt for two new primitives `goto-point-min' and `goto-point-max'.
>>
>> And `goto-line-noninteractively' ;)
>
> Hmmm.... Every second use of `point-min' is within the idiom (goto-char
> (point-min)). So I think I have a point here.
That's exactly why you don't have a point. Every second use of "think"
is within the idiom "I think", and yet we don't use a separate word for
it. Because we don't need a separate word for a common simple idiom
comprised of elementary parts.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-08-11 3:07 ` point-min and 1 Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-11 9:18 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-11 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-12 8:55 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-12 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-12 23:03 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-13 0:13 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-08-13 9:52 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-13 18:08 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 21:28 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-13 23:21 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-14 7:16 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14 9:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2009-08-14 9:50 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14 9:55 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-14 1:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-14 7:15 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14 8:44 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-14 9:50 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-11 15:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-11 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-13 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-13 4:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-13 9:53 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 12:38 ` David Kastrup
2009-08-13 14:40 ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier
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