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bug#38051: 26.3; (elisp) `Insertion' use of verb "point"
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#38051: 26.3; (elisp) `Insertion' use of verb "point" |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:11:38 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:53:06 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 38051@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 1. From a user point of view (conceptual model),
> markers _are_ objects that can be located
> _in_ a buffer, _at_ buffer positions.
That is incorrect. A marker stores a buffer and a location within
that buffer, but it isn't itself located in a buffer.
> 3. When we document `char-after', we don't say
> that the char (which is conceptually _in_ the
> buffer) "points at" a buffer position. We
> say "Return the character _in_ current buffer
> _at_ position POS."
>
> Markers, like characters, are at buffer
> positions (chars are actually after, not at).
See above: that's correct about characters, but incorrect about
markers.
> This is how we treat overlays.
Overlays are completely different beasts.