From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lispref/text.texi Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:03:07 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <44A77B86.3050606@easy-emacs.de> <44A80E96.4020106@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152122678 13870 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2006 18:04:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 18:04:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 05 20:04:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBji-00089h-5D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:04:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBjh-0003p7-PV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:04:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBjV-0003ok-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:04:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBjR-0003oH-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBjQ-0003oE-V3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FyBjR-00040L-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FyBjH-00086S-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:04:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:04:03 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:04:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <44A80E96.4020106@easy-emacs.de> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56591 Archived-At: Andreas Roehler wrote: > PS. Would be great to see an example where the point > being in reality before the shown position matters - as > far as text-editing functions are concerned. When point is at the beginning or end of the buffer, i.e. before the first character or after the last character, so that you can insert text before or after those characters resp. If text was always inserted before or after the character point was on [sic], you'd need a special way to handle the beginning and end of the buffer. -- Kevin