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Re: beginning-of-buffer computations
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: beginning-of-buffer computations |
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Sun, 01 Feb 2015 15:18:49 +0100 |
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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> Now I pretty much see what is going on for "large buffers". For
> smaller ones, I'm wondering what is the rationale behind the `+ 10'
> part? It approximately adds one to the result (of course, the result
> is truncated to the next-lower-integer, so it's not that, ekhm,
> simple) - but why?
As had been said, that +10 part effectively adds 1 to the result.
I guess that's because buffer positions start counting from 1, not from
0. If you want to go to 0/10 of the buffer, you want to land on
(point-min) = 1, etc.
Michael.
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