From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <037e45ba-ae4d-7aa7-bfa2-dd6a27aaff26@disroot.org> <863C33CF-82A6-43C3-8EE3-2082096C338B@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530658991 7954 195.159.176.226 (3 Jul 2018 23:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 23:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: brandelune@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 01:03:06 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1faUK9-0001un-E3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2018 01:03:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43218 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faUME-0000L4-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:05:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38879) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faULS-0000KT-69 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faULR-0000MZ-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57252) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1faULJ-0000Jx-TF; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1faULJ-0005IJ-Eq; Tue, 03 Jul 2018 19:04:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:16:07 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226921 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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). ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was not a text editor. Its text editor was TECO -- the very same TECO on top of which EMACS was implemented. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)