Re: what is the point of point-min?

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>  on Thu, 28 Aug 2003
>
> | Yes, but what I meant to say with »other instances« was if there are
> | any cases where (region-end) is not equivalent to (max (point) (mark)).
>
> That is a very different question, but the answer is still "yes".
> One case is with XEmacs.  If zmacs-regions is t then (mark) returns
> nil unless the region is active (highlighted).

Ah yes, thanks.

But I also noticed that `region-end' isn't even completely compatible
between the two Emacsen.  `region-end' in XEmacs is equivalent to:

   (let ((mark-even-if-inactive t))
     (region-end))

in Emacs.