From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6493: 24.0.50; doc strings of region-beginning, region-end Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:13:10 -0700 Message-ID: <969BF38D66A0450F88923BFF8942AC68@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277224152 16515 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2010 16:29:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:29:12 +0000 (UTC) To: 6493@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 22 18:29:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OR6LW-0007ZK-Ft for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:29:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OR6LV-0007q1-RC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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What we need to add is what is said in the Elisp manual: that the "beginning" ("end") is the position of either point or the mark, whichever is smaller (larger). In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-06-21 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/xpm/include'