From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
6493@debbugs.gnu.org, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6493:
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:02:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6d2jfm2.fsf@escher.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4ommcc6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:45:13 -0400")
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:45:13 -0400 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:10, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Attached is a new patch.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Three comments:
>
> Aside from these points (with which I agree), the addition of "as a
> nonnegative integer" is unnecessary. Point and mark are always
> non-negative. Also, it is important to keep the word "position",
> because mark could otherwise refer to the mark marker. I prefer:
>
> "Return the position of point or mark, whichever is smaller."
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:16:48 -0700 "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> Point _is_ a position. It is the position of the cursor. So that text speaks
> about the position of the position of the cursor, which is incorrect.
>
> But you are correct that we do speak of "setting the mark at a position".
How about this:
"Return the smaller of the integer value of point or the mark."
(`value' is used in the doc strings of 'point' and `mark'.)
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-22 16:13 bug#6493: 24.0.50; doc strings of region-beginning, region-end Drew Adams
2010-06-27 12:26 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 13:52 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-06-27 14:02 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 14:18 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-06-27 14:29 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-06-27 14:33 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-10 23:41 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 4:20 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 0:12 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 9:10 ` bug#6493: Deniz Dogan
2010-07-23 9:30 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-23 15:45 ` bug#6493: Chong Yidong
2010-07-23 16:16 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 17:02 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2010-07-23 17:26 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-07-23 17:32 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 11:44 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 15:16 ` bug#6493: Johan Bockgård
2010-08-01 19:01 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-01 21:17 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 3:30 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-08-02 5:09 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 5:34 ` bug#6493: Drew Adams
2010-08-02 6:43 ` bug#6493: Juanma Barranquero
2010-07-29 15:58 ` bug#6493: Chong Yidong
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