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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation
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John Yates |
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Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation |
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Tue, 3 Jul 2018 16:16:07 -0400 |
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:38 AM Jean-Christophe Helary
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From the Introduction to Emacs Lisp:
>
> "In Emacs, the current position of the cursor is called point. The expression
> (point) returns a number that tells you where the cursor is located as a
> count of the number of characters from the beginning of the buffer up to
> point."
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).
/john
Re: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation, Siraphob (Ben) Phipathananunth, 2018/07/03
RE: "Point" vs. "cursor" in documentation, Drew Adams, 2018/07/04