From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:39:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzhz7iv7u.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0a994a51-b80b-9d78-9e9e-0d379ffa5733@disroot.org
> When do we use point over cursor, and vice versa, in documentation?
"Point" is concerned about where operations will happen, whereas
"cursor" is concerned about where the thingy will be drawn on screen.
The cursor only moves when the display gets refreshed (i.e. once per
command, more or less), whereas point can be modified by lots of
intermediate operations, so it can change thousands of times within
a single command.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-04 2:39 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
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 [this message]
2018-07-04 6:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-07-04 14:52 ` Drew Adams
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