From: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
To: brandelune@gmail.com
Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:16:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJnXXoiWNw7_=pUKLAJyGUPdV4shDFz5AoDHHSGBsTWDYnA4-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <863C33CF-82A6-43C3-8EE3-2082096C338B@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:38 AM Jean-Christophe Helary
<brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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."
Historical note: Emacs did not invent this terminology. When I used
TECO commands were explained / defined in terms of "point". For all I
know TECO may in turn have inherited that terminology from even
earlier editors (c.f. MIT's ITS or its PDP-1).
/john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-03 20:16 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
2018-07-03 20:16 ` John Yates [this message]
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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